Error: "message content is not acceptable here"

[John Dlugosz]

When forwarding a message to my reporting account, I got a message "An
error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: message
content is not acceptable here. Please check the message and try again."


--John

[Mike Easter]

Post by John Dlugosz
When forwarding a message to my reporting account, I got a message "An
error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: message
content is not acceptable here. Please check the message and try again."

Several things are not clear to me, so making assumptions is a bad idea
without some clarification.

One assumption is that you are getting the message you describe from
some kind of outbound filter system installed by your mail server
provder's server. That is, there is a content based filter acting on
your outgoing mail, and that content filter is detecting the spam
content of the submission to the submit address. If that is actually
the case, you wouldn't be able to mail submit spam unless something
changed.

Another assumption is that although you have posted this message in the
spamcop.mail newsgroup, which was originally intended for support for
the people with spamcop mail accounts
http://www.spamcop.net/ces/individuals.shtml = SpamCop Email System for
Individuals = but in reality your question is not about the spamcop
email account system, but instead is about a spamcop reporting issue,
which is normally discussed in the newsgroups spamcop or spamcop.help,
not .mail.

Another assumption or derivation is that there is 'something funny' with
your posting IP address. I thought that by determining your IP address
from your news message headers that I would be able to determine your
mail provider and that I could check and see if your mail provider had
some kind of outbound filter in place. I discovered that your nntp
posting IP is 216.36.107.74 which surprisingly has the rDNS
mail.hgimail.com even though it is a megapath netblock IP.

That is surprising because mail.hgimail.com DNS 204.117.182.162 which
is the MX for hgimail.com domainname which belongs to Homemade Gourmet
Inc under Sprint. So I can't make any sense out of your IP's rDNS which
is provided by the megapath nameservers which owns the block of your IP.
Strange condition.

So, in order to eliminate confusion, you should confirm that -1- you
don't have a spamcop mail account, but you are asking a question about
'simple' spamcop reporting by mail -2- the message you are describing is
coming from your mail provider's smtp server and -3- who your mail
provider is which is giving you that message.

If you know why your posting IP's megapath nameservers should be rDNSing
your IP as mail.hgimail.com, I would also be curious to know that.