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DaveJ

(5,023 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2012, 09:57 AM Mar 2012

Isn't it strange that Microsoft blocks its own mail?

I posted on Microsoft tech forum and sent a confirmation email to my Live account, and at the top were a couple messages like this: "This message looks suspicious to our SmartScreen filters."

Isn't it crazy that MS has their heads so far up their butts they can't even accept their own email?

Really more of a statement than a question. My only question is how can a company be so aloof? I like MS, but stuff like this just make me wonder sometimes. It's like they do not understand their own spam filters enough to send an email that does not get blocked.

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Isn't it strange that Microsoft blocks its own mail? (Original Post) DaveJ Mar 2012 OP

You are not the only one... ChromeFoundry Mar 2012 #1

ChromeFoundry

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1. You are not the only one...

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Fri Mar 2, 2012, 10:36 AM

Mar 2012

I get that "looks suspicious" message on every technet alert message too...

Here is a article as to why hotmail/msn mail servers are marking it that way, but, it doesn't explain why Microsoft has decided to set up its DNS servers to report back an invalid domain on a reverse-dns lookup for the IP addresses that generate these emails - i.e. "by2msftvsmtp03.phx.gbl"

http://artific.com/202/2005/12/a_practically_u/

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