George <_g_bnotreallymyaddresseccles[at]verizon.net> wrote:

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I know this is off-topic, so I will keep it short. I also
use Agent to read this group - but not the free version. If
you get an "authentication required" error you have not set
up your copy of Agent correctly. You have chosen to use an
SMTP server that requires authentication to send e-mail with
Agent and it requires your username and password.

--
Vic Roberts
Replace xxx with vdr in e-mail address.

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Dick Adams <rdadams[at]smart.net) wrote:

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I read here regularly, but post rarely. I didn't even
notice "Plan for 2006". I haven't had any problems with
posting. I gather that the above would still apply to me?

If so: when I "reply via e-mail" from Free Agent, I get an
error, saying that "Dick Adams <rdadams[at]smart.net> is 'Not a
valid e-mail address'" when I try to send it. When I reduce
that to just radams[at]smart.net, I get an "authentication
required" error.

I'm not sure how I would send the required message with my
regular e-mail (Eudora), since that doesn't let me mangle my
'from' address.

(Apologies for being dense.)

George

Moderator:
I remember when this stuff was simple. OK here is a
solution that will be effective as of 8pm EST tonight.
Post it to the newsgroup and use the subject "MTM - 2006".
I will modify my filter to route it propeerly.

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an_ordinary_guy_158[at]hotmail.com (Bill) wrote in

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IMHO, at least *sometimes* the ISP of the receiver is at
fault, certainly when it is Verizon. Just over a year ago
Verizon started a new policy, over and above their infamous
sender verification, whereby all email from foreign domains
was refused. That means that in theory, the sender's ISP
(not Verizon) should send the sender some type of bounce
message. This was very annoying for some people, like my
spouse who had their Verizon email on their web page
(genealogy) as contact, so people could contact her, even
people unknown to my wife.

After a lot of noise Verizon relented a tiny little bit, and
you (the intended recipient) can now initiate a request to
have email addresses added to a white list. For more info
consult the 0.verizon newsgroups, only accessible to verizon
customer when on the verizon network.

--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid

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Re: the problem with blocked mail.

Dick, if it's any comfort to you, the internet seems to be
rife with complaints about this. I personally am involved
in a situation where my niece has every email she sends me
"bounced" with a notation that email from her has been
"blocked" by the addressee, or the addressee's server.

Now, since she was both in my address book and on my "safe
contact" list, I knew that should be hooey ... but research
revealed that the only way to track this down, is to have
_her_ initiate a request with her sysadmin to investigate.

In the process, I posted a query in a "help" group, and that
created a thread of several hundred replies -- most from
others who were suffering similar problems. But the
internet gurus who actually knew something, were unanimous
that it must be pursued by the sender, through their ISP or
system administrator. [The help group moderator was not too
happy, either -- and cut off the thread.]

The problem is related to the internet-wide scourge of spam,
and both aol and Microsoft are undertaking major drives to
reduce spam ... thus leading to the "blocking" issues.

Bill

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I moderate from a UNIX Shell account and use a Procmail
filter. The filter uses several traps which catch e-mail
from various orgaizations and five filter files. One file
is "Accept All" and another is "Burn before Read".

Two people have informed me that their posts are not getting
to me. Both are in my "Accept All" filter file. That mean
the posts are not coming to me. While I believe this is the
fault of their ISP, I am going to completely redo my "Accept
All" filter file. If you previously responded to my "Plan
for 2006", you need to do nothing. Otherwise send me an email
with your normal posting "From" header and in the body include
your name and your real e-mail address.

If you are having problems posting, send me an e-mail at
rdadams[at]smart.net and ask your ISP to check their routing
of posts for moderated newsgroups - MTM in particular.

I'd like this problem to go away very fast.

Dick

P.S.: I still delete nonsense without notification.

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