Tech: blocked e mails

Subject: Tech: blocked e mails
From: kendall
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 10:19 PM

Something is blocking some of the e mails that I don't want blocked and I can't seem to find out how to unblock them. Any ideas?

I'm using Outlook express

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: bobad
Date: 20 Feb 07 - 10:25 PM

Try clicking on TOOLS/MESSAGE RULES/BLOCKED SENDERS LIST and poke around there.

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 03:25 AM

Could it mail the size of the files Cap'n? Try checking them out on your ISPs webmail site. Don't know who you use, but it's usually mail.ispprovider.com, and you can use your password there and read your mail.
As Bobad says you may have a restriction somewhere in your mail rules, just need to keep picking away at it, till you find out the problem I'm afraid. What you need is a tame geek!
Giok

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: Scrump
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 05:27 AM

Check that your ISP hasn't installed a spam filter.

Mine did this (without telling me), and I eventually discovered it was filtering out all sorts of 'genuine' emails as well as spam. I had to login to their webmail and change some settings to get the proper stuff allowed through.

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: kendall
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:33 AM

I think I cured it. How do these things happen without my help?

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: Scrump
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 07:35 AM

What turned out to be the problem? We're all interested to know!

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: GUEST,pyewacket
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:09 AM

Kendall:
In outlook Express, Go to "Tools": then click "Message Rules": thern click "Blocked Sender List". Pick oput the ones that you do not want to be blocked and "uncheck" them.
pyewacket

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: pyewacket
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 08:12 AM

Ooops. Lost cookie again
pyewacket

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:04 PM

If you've recently gotten updates to IE6 and/or have IE7, you may have also received the "new" cookie handler, popup blocker, and phishing filter. The phishing filter in particular is known to block email from specific servers that have been identified as "crime scenes," due to high volume of such mail. An innocent person using the same service can get blocked occasionally.

In IE7, the controls to turn these on/off are at Tools. In IE6 it may be at "Manage Add-ons" but I don't have a copy of IE6 to check.

It does appear that OE email "comes in" through the IE filters, although the exact dependencies of the two programs is only vaguely documented.

A service provider (ISP) can also apply filters that they don't tell you about.

Theoretically the service should pass email from anyone who's in your address book, so adding the sender's address to your book is supposed to stop them from blocking mail. OE can be set to automatically add sender's address for anyone who's mail you open and read (not really recommended, but it is an option; Automatically add addressees address is not quite so dangerous.)

If the option is set, or if you deliberately added the sender to your book, that might explain a "mysterious solution?"

John

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: kendall
Date: 21 Feb 07 - 01:18 PM

John, I don't think I know any innocent people!

The problem was in th list of blocked mail. I don't know how they got blocked but I unchecked them and that did it.

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: Becca72
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 10:45 AM

Sometimes if you get mail from a friend that they've sent to a bunch of other people the filter thinks it's spam and will automatically add that name to the blocked list...at least that's true of my email provider.

Subject: RE: Tech: blocked e mails
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 Feb 07 - 06:37 PM

An unpublished bit of information that I ran into a year or so ago is that with a free Hotmail account sending 10 messages in the same day - or the same message to 10 or more people - triggers a 24-hour block on your sent mail. The "rule" is not too consistently enforced, but can be a real surprise if you've done it once with no problem and the next time they turn you off - without explanation.

Since the only way to get support for your Hotmail account is to send them an email, if your send connection is blocked the technical term for your condition is S.O.L., I think.

(You can pay extra to have that limit removed.)

John