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Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

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apage
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Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

I sell books from my website, but today I could not send a delivery confirmation email to a customer who had a Plusnet account because the msx.avasin.plus.net spam filter registered it as spam with error no. 552. My business emails have a footer with (1) my email address, (2) my business website address, (3) my blog address, and (4) a link to a website unsubscribe page which customers can click on to stop any further emails from me. I investigated this carefully and found that apart from my email address, if just one of those other three links was present then the plusnet spam filter stopped it from reaching a customer. When none of the links was included the same email reached the customer. (I was able to investigate this by sending copies of the email from my gmail account to my own Plusnet account, not the customer's!) None of the sites my emails link to is blacklisted. I tested the same email sent from my gmail account with all the links in it on the website mail-tester.com, which checks emails for anything that might be spam and it gave a 10/10 perfect score (including all the links).  I don't have any problems sending my emails to anyone who doesn't have a Plusnet account. So the problem is clearly with Plusnet's spam filter. All the links are to secure (https) websites. So would someone in management please tell the Plusnet filter that my websites are clean and my emails are not spam? The websites are https://www.booksforlife.today and https://unearthingthetruth.info, and the unsubscribe link (which is a legal requirement) is to https://booksforlife.today/unsubscribe.html. Until this problem is fixed I am in danger of losing some business through emails not reaching customers or potential customers. I've attached the full source of one of the rejected emails.

 

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

Hi @apage 

A warm welcome to the forums.  There is more going on here than the simple "Plusnet is treating my URLs as spam".

I have tried to reproduce the problem.  I sent an email to one of my Plusnet mailboxes, containing the following...

https://www.booksforlife.today
https://unearthingthetruth.info
https://booksforlife.today/unsubscribe.html

 ... from

  1. The same Plusnet email box - no problem
  2. An Outlook.com email address - no problem
  3. Another Plesk email address - no problem
  4. A Gmail address - failure as you describe

This rather looks like a Gmail to Plusnet issue - possibly the problem being with Gmail.  Here are the message headers from my Gmail non-delivery report...

Delivered-To: me.gmail@gmail.com
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        Mon, 8 Jun 2020 03:53:29 -0700 (PDT)
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        Mon, 08 Jun 2020 03:53:29 -0700 (PDT)
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        Mon, 08 Jun 2020 03:53:28 -0700 (PDT)
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Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2020 03:53:28 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
References: <CAEOBTBop6JWJZb_Fgx7vXUU84oMc_yPOacCoGGhOnatgKMArEg@mail.gmail.com>
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X-Failed-Recipients: me-plusnet@me-plusnet.me.uk

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** Message not delivered **

There was a problem delivering your message to me-plusnet@me-plusnet.me.uk. See the technical details below.



The response from the remote server was:
552 Spam Message Rejected

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Message not delivered
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<tr><td style="padding-top:20px;color:#757575;font-size:16px;font-weight:normal;text-align:left">
There was a problem delivering your message to <a style='color:#212121;text-decoration:none'><b>me-plusnet@me-plusnet.me.uk</b></a>. See the technical details below.
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The response from the remote server was:<br/>
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552 Spam Message Rejected
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From: Kevin J <me.gmail@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 11:53:14 +0100
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https://www.booksforlife.today

https://unearthingthetruth.info

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@JW is this one for you please?

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apage
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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

Thanks for that. However it's not just emails from gmail that are affected. My business email address, arnoldpage@booksforlife.today, is serviced by NetNerd, another webhosting company, and it was an email from that address (with the links) that was rejected by the recipient's PlusNet email client. Nothing to do with gmail. Furthermore, when I sent the same email to the spam-checking website from my gmail account it scored it 10/10 spam free.

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

I've had someone pull out the relevant logs, using the sender and recipient in your rejection message. Once it's been reviewed we'll be able to provide an update.

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

Hi @apage 

"Nothing to do with gmail"

Well given that the URLs present no issue when sent from three other regimes, it is something to do with Gmail, at least in part.  Now that there is a clear profile on the issue, that it is reproduceable and has scope, I am sure that the cause will be easier to identify.  If it were no for the fact that you stated that you had a failure when sending from Gmail, then the issue might not have been profiled, given that my testing from elsewhere did not give rise to a failure.

It was only because I could not reproduce the error with 3 different email services, that I considered "Is this yet another Gmail centric issue?" and thus ran another test from a Gmail account**.  We have encountered a few of those over the last two years.  One should not put faith into it not being a Gmail issue just because Google is so big.

**Note we have seen divergent behaviour in the past between free Gmail accounts and subscribed for Gmail accounts.

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

I've just had an update back on this. The rejection is based on message fingerprinting. So that they can check for clashes and look to reset this, the support team have asked for a full copy of the original message, in RFC822 format. This needs to be the copy that would be in the sent folder in the originating email client.

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

@JW 

I have sent that via PM. The email was sent from the Gmail web interface.

@apage 

My test message generated the same profile, so there is no need for you to do anything at the moment.

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

Thanks. Someone else had a similar issue 2 years ago which you got involved with.

https://community.plus.net/t5/Email/Plusnet-SMTP-server-incorrectly-rejecting-outgoing-email-as-spam...

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

It might have been a similar error code, but it was not a similar issue.  That one was specifically the URL as it failed regardless of the email source.

This issue is (so far) not thought to be the URLs themselves but something to do with the way Gmail (and your other provider) is doing something with them.  I have sent a number of different test emails (in plain text) from Gmail containing...

  1. just one of the URLs in turn - they all succeed
  2. all three URLs - fails
  3. the two website URLs - fails
  4. the two books for life URLs - succeeds
  5. blog and unsubscribe - fails
  6. ... for the avoidance of doubt; again the blog URL on its own - succeeds
  7. all three addresses (omitting 'https://') - succeeds

I conclude that it is the combination of the blog URL in conjunction with one of the other two, when sent from Gmail which is giving rise to the issue.  The tech team have enough information now to raise this with the spam platform providers.

 

On a side note - your website looks good and some of the content is very interesting - particularly the item on dwindling attendance.  I like the no-nonsense style!

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

Thanks for the unexpected compliments! The technical issue really is complicated!

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

Fix

As an update on this, the fingerprints have been adjusted so the emails should now be correctly delivered as desired.

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

Wonderful. A test email with all the links arrived safely in my Plusnet mailbox. A great relief. Thank you very much.

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@JW 

Is there an explanation for the profile of the failure please?

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Re: Emails sent to Plusnet accounts rejected as spam when they include a link to a website.

The only information I have is that there was a fingerprint clash on message content. So something in the message looked like something in messages that had been marked as spam. That's why the examples were needed to investigate further and tune the fingerprints.

 Jon W
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