Over the weekend I noticed that I couldn’t send out any emails from my email accounts.
Thinking it was something I did, I kept on checking until the error log showed that the problem was from my ISP, I-Cable.
A phone call today revealed that the Hong Kong Government now has passed a law for “Anti Spamming”, which I think involves prosecution if you are found to be spamming your wares to others. A recent study by Sophos reveals that Hong Kong/China accounts for 20% of all Spam relays, with the US being No 1.
I’m all in favour of this, however I found that all my outgoing emails have to now go through I-Cable’s SMTP server (smtp.i-cable.com). Some recent tests show that not all my emails are going to their correct destination.
I support the Anti-spamming measures, perhaps a little dubious as to why my emails are being checked – but have nothing to hide, so that’s ok…but if my emails aren’t actually getting through, then what’s the point!
Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo seem to be able to send emails ok, but doesn’t look too professional when replying to a client as such.
Anyone else come across this?
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