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Email Address Blocked

17 years ago

I have Verizon and a friend says suddenly her emails to me are coming back and it says Verizon has blocked and banned her address because of spam. What's up with this? I wrote to the white list to remove the block and Verizon says it will have to contact her server and investigate. This has never happened before. Has anyone else had this experience? I'm just curious as to why this happened since we've been emailing back and forth for years.

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PKponder TX Z7B
17 years ago
There may be a ban on all email addresses originating within her ISP. My company, for instance blocks all emails originating from AOL, Yahoo and Hotmail.
rosethyme
Original Author
17 years ago
Thanks, Pkponder, I recently switched to Verizon FIOS so maybe that's one of the reasons. However, I've had it about 2 weeks and this is the first time it has happened. Strangely, her emails are being accepted now.
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owbist
17 years ago
What you may well find is that the entire ISP is not banned but more likely the one server they are allowing Spam to emanate from. Your friend could well send the returned email right back and it could be delivered.

Have your friend right click on a returned header then click Properties/Details/ Message source. Bring it up to full screen for easy viewing and have a look. She might see a link she can go to that explains who is dong the blocking. A company called SORBS is big into this stuff, I had problems way back but it all seems cured now thankfully.

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