[Fwd: Re: [Hidden-tech] Comcast problems?]

[Ron Miller]

I've had this happen. I have a forwarding address on my web site
(ronsmiller at ronsmiller.com), which forwards to my Comcast account. I've
had my ronsmiller.com email quarantined by Comcast's draconian Spam
filters several times, and it's no easy task to get it going again.

If this does happen to you, send an email to: this-is-not-spam at comcast.net

They take some time to get the mail going again, and there is no way to
talk to a human in this department. I've found it usually takes two or
more follow-ups to get them to white list your name, but they have fixed
it eventually each time it happened.

Ron





Jonathan Dill wrote:
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> If you have an internet domain and your domain provider has decent 
> e-mail services, you are MUCH better off using their e-mail servers 
> directly if that is possible.  To be honest I think it is a BAD idea to 
> forward your e-mail to Comcast, AOL, Verizon (and several other similar 
> providers) because they do not handle forwarded e-mail correctly, they 
> like to "shoot the messenger" so to speak, they will blame the service 
> that is merely forwarding your e-mail instead of looking at where the 
> e-mail actually originated.
> 
> If you must use your Comcast e-mail account for some reason, see if the 
> service that forwards your e-mail can "quarantine" spam so that it 
> doesn't get forwarded to Comcast, but you will have to periodically 
> check the quarantine.  Or you could try to find a good third-party 
> e-mail provider that doesn't have silly practices for filtering spam.  
> If you have a web site, you may already be entitled to a number of 
> e-mail accounts that go with that service, that may be worth looking 
> into as well.
> 
> Personally, I use Dreamhost because I have web hosting with them, and 
> have amped up their SpamAssassin filtering with some rules of my own--I 
> much prefer to go ahead and receive the spam and let Thunderbird sort it 
> out based on the SpamAssassin tags.  The downside is that Dreamhost is 
> in California, so every once in awhile I have connectivity problems, you 
> may well find something better that is local.  I don't have any direct 
> experience with Crocker, but Matthew Crocker sounds like a very 
> competent guy, so I would expect their services to be good without any 
> silly blocking practices.
> 
> Jonathan
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