Email fun - AT&T are tossers
April 6th, 2006 by HenCarrie had an email bounce back from her mom, seems insightbb (local ISP come cable monopoly in KY) were blocking our email server. Digging into it, it seems it’s an AT&T blacklist and Insight just sit on top of it. Arse, thinks I, blacklisted.
Digging further. Turns out that AT&T consider forwarding of spam to be spam. So if you are a mail forwarding service (which is what we do for a few parental email addresses), you can’t simply forward said email on to the real destination - instead you have to be running spam filters and doing most of the ISPs work for them (here’s their policy).
Irritating.