What's with this email delay ?

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Digs

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#7471 17-Apr-2006 19:59

I sent a email from xtra to a vodafone email address, as a TEST.

Xtra from ADSL

Email sent at 7.42 East monday night...

Viewing the vodafone account via the web management screen, I been watching for 15 min and it still has not arrived.

Go figure...

This is so bad...any ideas. And this is not the forst time I have seen this delay.

Update its now 20 min...

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#33214 17-Apr-2006 20:38

It happens. Sometimes the Xtra server is overloaded with e-mails causing extra activity for the spam and antivirus filter...

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#33218 17-Apr-2006 20:49

Digs send a letter and see how long it takes LOL

and make sure it does not end up in the Vodafone SPAM filter

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#33247 18-Apr-2006 06:04

Your 100% correct.
I sent an email with no body

So it ended up in the spam account....

Vodafone spam rules caught it...

--------------------  Spam Score Summary ---------------------- 
YES, score=4.0, current spam score threshold=4.0 
Hit! DCC              ( 0.5 pts) [ Distributed Checksum Score ] 
Hit! NULL_TEXT        ( 1.0 pts) [ HTML with plain body text empty ] 
Hit! MULTIPARTRATIO   ( 1.5 pts) [ multipart message with unbalanced text to html ] 
Hit! SPFPASS          ( -0.5 pts) [ /pass/ ] Hit! FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS ( 0.5 pts) [ /\d+\@/ ] 
Hit! SUBJ_LOTS_CAPS   ( 0.5 pts) [ /[A-Z\s]{8,}/ ] 
Hit! NO VOWELS        ( 0.5 pts) [ /<[^aeiouy]+@/i ]
 ----------------- End of Spam Score Summary -------------------

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#33248 18-Apr-2006 07:02

Well there you go as easy as that

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#33267 18-Apr-2006 10:28

Digs:
Vodafone spam rules caught it...

--------------------  Spam Score Summary ---------------------- 
YES, score=4.0, current spam score threshold=4.0 
Hit! DCC              ( 0.5 pts) [ Distributed Checksum Score ] 
Hit! NULL_TEXT        ( 1.0 pts) [ HTML with plain body text empty ] 
Hit! MULTIPARTRATIO   ( 1.5 pts) [ multipart message with unbalanced text to html ] 
Hit! SPFPASS          ( -0.5 pts) [ /pass/ ] Hit! FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS ( 0.5 pts) [ /\d+\@/ ] 
Hit! SUBJ_LOTS_CAPS   ( 0.5 pts) [ /[A-Z\s]{8,}/ ] 
Hit! NO VOWELS        ( 0.5 pts) [ /<[^aeiouy]+@/i ]
Hit! FROM TELECOM     ( 3.5 pts) [ @xtra.co.nz ]
 ----------------- End of Spam Score Summary -------------------

Gee... that last one is a bit tough....

[self edit: the last line of that spam report IS A JOKE :-P]

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#33271 18-Apr-2006 10:42

Goodness! 3.5 points just for being from that domain, just the domain that (probably) 50% of New Zealand Internet Users have an account with?

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#33276 18-Apr-2006 11:25

LOL.. that last one is classic!!!

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#33279 18-Apr-2006 11:42

Digs:
-------------------- Spam Score Summary ----------------------
YES, score=4.0, current spam score threshold=4.0
Hit! DCC ( 0.5 pts) [ Distributed Checksum Score ]
Hit! NULL_TEXT ( 1.0 pts) [ HTML with plain body text empty ]
Hit! MULTIPARTRATIO ( 1.5 pts) [ multipart message with unbalanced text to html ]
Hit! SPFPASS ( -0.5 pts) [ /pass/ ] Hit! FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS ( 0.5 pts) [ /\d+\@/ ]
Hit! SUBJ_LOTS_CAPS ( 0.5 pts) [ /[A-Z\s]{8,}/ ]
Hit! NO VOWELS ( 0.5 pts) [ /<[^aeiouy]+@/i ]
----------------- End of Spam Score Summary -------------------

Tonys quote of digs
: -------------------- Spam Score Summary ----------------------
YES, score=4.0, current spam score threshold=4.0
Hit! DCC ( 0.5 pts) [ Distributed Checksum Score ]
Hit! NULL_TEXT ( 1.0 pts) [ HTML with plain body text empty ]
Hit! MULTIPARTRATIO ( 1.5 pts) [ multipart message with unbalanced text to html ]
Hit! SPFPASS ( -0.5 pts) [ /pass/ ] Hit! FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS ( 0.5 pts) [ /\d+\@/ ]
Hit! SUBJ_LOTS_CAPS ( 0.5 pts) [ /[A-Z\s]{8,}/ ]
Hit! NO VOWELS ( 0.5 pts) [ /<[^aeiouy]+@/i ]
Hit! FROM TELECOM ( 3.5 pts) [ @xtra.co.nz ]
----------------- End of Spam Score Summary -------------------

Where did that 'From telecom' appear from indeed?
Now its spawned a blog post....

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#33281 18-Apr-2006 11:49

Hmm the blog post has vanished from the blog, it made it to google news too....

Luckily I have a PDF printout of it

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#33286 18-Apr-2006 12:35

Yes, the post is gone - I made a bad decision on writing about it without checking all the facts...

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#33288 18-Apr-2006 12:40

cokemaster.... can i see??

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#33289 18-Apr-2006 12:51

http://news.google.co.nz/nwshp?hl=en&tab=wn&q=vodafone%20xtra

Most of the post is gone...

Sorry Mauricio, I should have made it more obvious that I was purposely misquoting Diggs for reasons of mirth!!

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#33305 18-Apr-2006 16:12

tonyhughes: Sorry Mauricio, I should have made it more obvious that I was purposely misquoting Diggs for reasons of mirth!!

Ooops. This whole thing is out of control. My blog post was live for only 10 minutes, but this thread is alive.

I've got the word from Telecom that they are not amused: apparently a couple of people already called their help desk to ask about Vodafone blocking email from Xtra.

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#33306 18-Apr-2006 16:17

Hope you all had fun..

The point is that vodafone stuck my email in a spam account, without telling the sender that it was treated as spam.

I not sure what the best policy is, but it would have saved me some grief.

I now have my email address to vodafone on the approved list.

Maybe some one should post Xtra spam rules.

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#33307 18-Apr-2006 16:19

Mid-April Fool? hehe

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