Bouncing E-mails

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I have my own domain name and so my e-mail address is keith at mydomain dot com. Lately I have been getting a lot of e-mails bouncing back to me as undeliverable with the 550 error code blocked for abuse or blocked for spam

This is especially true for people who I e-mail with bellsouth.net and comcast.net e-mail address.

I suspect my domain name has been blocked or blacklisted by these domains for spam. I did some searching and found pages on the respective sites with a form I could request that my domain name be unblocked. I filled in the forms for bellsouth and comcast.

Is there anything else I can do? Will filling in these forms help or am I just whistling in cyberspace?

Any suggestions/comments would be welcome. I know my way around a computer but am not a geek so please use simple language :D Thanks.
 
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A lot of the spam filters assume that a domain is spam. Basically it take your domain and compares it with a database of domains. Now if your domain is even part of that blocked domain, you will get blocked. And I don't think there is a thing you can do. You may want to buy another domain that you can use for just email. Most hosts will allow you to park a number of domains on you webspace.
 
Why not replace your mailto address with one from a free email service, like Gmail? Pick a username that is neutral (i.e., doesn't have the term "sex" in it). Your outgoing emails from one of those are less likely to be quarantined by recipients. Plus the added benefit of Gmail's spam filtering, which catches most of the incoming spam with very few false positives.

I use a Gmail address for the mailto on my site. I get about 100-200 spam emails a day, with all but a couple being quarantined. And I don't recall any recipient not getting messages from me.

Cheers.
 
LOL. Thanks Randy. I've had that domain name for nearly ten years and never noticed that. Now I feel like a pervert.

Thanks for the suggestions and comments folks.

I got a reply from Comcast today and they have removed my domain from the blocklist. Hopefully Bellsouth will do the same in a timely manner.

I understand what you are saying about getting a gmail account, but I don't see why I should have to. I have done nothing wrong. I have had the same e-mail address for nearly ten years. I don't want to have to tell everyone I have changed my address. I don't want to have to go to six different places to check my e-mail.

Bellsouth and Comcast are doing this, not so much to protect their customers, but to protect themselves from all the bandwidth created by all the spam. So they are blacklisting bunches of domain names and unfortunately some innocent names get caught in the net.

Also what gives them the right to decide which e-mails to deliver and which ones not to deliver. That would be like a mail carrier going down the street and throwing a bunch of bulk mail in the trash instead of putting it in your mailbox, figuring that maybe you did not want that mail.
 
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