A mailing list I am on reported that some (but not all) of its emails to me were being bounced with the error : -

550 Error: Message content rejected

The account I was using was Freeserve.co.uk which also handles fsnet.co.uk and wanadoo.co.uk

The messages rejected look reasonably harmless, is this a Spam filter or some other error ?



I Googled away and the problem has been seen at least as far back as 2004 and on non-Freeserver servers but the "reasons" suggested were nearly all totally irrational, ie, OE or POP fault.

Suggestions ?

It certainly sounds like a filter is behind it. You really have to ask Freeserve/poke around in their pages since they are (presumably) doing the rejecting - and see about whitelisting if it is available. From their pagesMore content is undoubtedly available to members - but from other public content it does sound like they only tag which doesn't fit with the rejection situation. You're not using Mailwasher or something like that I suppose?

Yes they have a tag scheme that uses X-Sieve: Server Sieve 2.2 which is a waste of everything since I have never had any spam on this account and it marks lots of long posts (mainly short fiction) as Spam.

Freeserve doesn't have anything private in this area that I know of and this is a genuine SMTP reject, hence my question. I am not using anything at all.

Asking Freeserve anything isn't a hopeful venture IMHO. They do recognise that you might be using linux or a Mac.

I dial up every 90 days to keep my account active so no "Hey Big Spender" either (GBP 0.01/minute at weekends).

Thanks for thinking about it

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