I followed many of the posts so far about this, and I do understand why an email client will see the relayed messages as Spam. What I wasn't aware of was that the ISP may also see it as spam, making it impossible to send to anyone at a particular domain.
Using didyoureadit I sent two emails to myself, each account being on a different ISP. I sent both messages from my same gmail account. Sending was flawless. The first message did work, although Thunderbird acted odd when I opened that message (so much for this being invisible). The second message seemed to vanish in the ether for awhile. The next day a bounced message appeared back at gmail:
"Barracuda Spam Firewall to me - 2:34am (8 hours ago) "
Even (not!) cooler than that, a view of the didyoureadit email log shows this email is still waiting being opened. Talk about bad design!
There is no warning at all about this on their web site, and there is no way I could ask my recipient to turn of his *isp's* spam filters.
I return to the didyouread it site. Now I notice there are *no* help files covering any problems, troubleshooting, or spam filters. I would love to have asked someone, but their user support phone number was conspicuously absent. Hmmm.
I think their should change their domain name to did-you-think-this-would-really-work?.com
I used PCs for years. Then I went back to school for visual arts and was required to use MACs for all the visual arts classes. After a year of using them almost daily I can honestly say WTF is the big deal about them?
Here is my list:
1) stupid mouse which they STILL haven't improved on
2) OVERPRICED. And the odd thing is the M$oft bashers here love apple.... but Apple is its own monopoly when it comes to hardware. Wasn't Apple that nice company who was suing a company who built Macs from indivdual Mac parts and resold them?
3) I can run Quark xpress just as fast and problem free on my Win XP machine. Same goes for Photoshop 7. And if you opt for a PC you still have money left over to afford the Quark or Photoshop software.
4) Guess what... Macs DO crash. Not just one computer, but *many* in my college have locked up, died, had fatal network errors or some other such nonsense.
5) And on a personal note, the whole Mac religion bugs the hell out of me. My college can't afford to upgrade to the G5 much less buy more Macs so there are enough computers to go around... if I could just unbrainwash them they'd be able to afford enough computers for all the Visual Arts students.
I'm glad there are choices in the computer world, but the G5 just isn't all that and a bag of chips.
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I followed many of the posts so far about this, and I do understand why an email client will see the relayed messages as Spam. What I wasn't aware of was that the ISP may also see it as spam, making it impossible to send to anyone at a particular domain. Using didyoureadit I sent two emails to myself, each account being on a different ISP. I sent both messages from my same gmail account. Sending was flawless. The first message did work, although Thunderbird acted odd when I opened that message (so much for this being invisible). The second message seemed to vanish in the ether for awhile. The next day a bounced message appeared back at gmail: "Barracuda Spam Firewall to me - 2:34am (8 hours ago) " Even (not!) cooler than that, a view of the didyoureadit email log shows this email is still waiting being opened. Talk about bad design! There is no warning at all about this on their web site, and there is no way I could ask my recipient to turn of his *isp's* spam filters. I return to the didyouread it site. Now I notice there are *no* help files covering any problems, troubleshooting, or spam filters. I would love to have asked someone, but their user support phone number was conspicuously absent. Hmmm. I think their should change their domain name to did-you-think-this-would-really-work?.com
I used PCs for years. Then I went back to school for visual arts and was required to use MACs for all the visual arts classes. After a year of using them almost daily I can honestly say WTF is the big deal about them? Here is my list: 1) stupid mouse which they STILL haven't improved on 2) OVERPRICED. And the odd thing is the M$oft bashers here love apple.... but Apple is its own monopoly when it comes to hardware. Wasn't Apple that nice company who was suing a company who built Macs from indivdual Mac parts and resold them? 3) I can run Quark xpress just as fast and problem free on my Win XP machine. Same goes for Photoshop 7. And if you opt for a PC you still have money left over to afford the Quark or Photoshop software. 4) Guess what... Macs DO crash. Not just one computer, but *many* in my college have locked up, died, had fatal network errors or some other such nonsense. 5) And on a personal note, the whole Mac religion bugs the hell out of me. My college can't afford to upgrade to the G5 much less buy more Macs so there are enough computers to go around... if I could just unbrainwash them they'd be able to afford enough computers for all the Visual Arts students. I'm glad there are choices in the computer world, but the G5 just isn't all that and a bag of chips.