French Connection Blacklisted!

[Florence Fennel]

Bonjour, do any of the French grapes (or English for that matter) have any experience of Free.fr? I successfully managed to e-mail my SIL and BIL yesterday (MIL has been diagnosed with heart disease and is in and out of hospital due to angina attacks). Today when I replied on an e-mail from them, it was returned undelivered and when I visited the site and translated, it looks like the mail was refused because of too much spam from my server and I'm blacklisted for 24 hrs!

[Florence Fennel]

Sorry, puts big foot right in it there - I mean British, not English

[Nicos]

Nope- we're with Neuf ( SFR)

Blacklisted eh????

[Jardiniere]

whats Free.fr? I'm with orange (which is france telecom)

[scarey55]

Sorry, i can't help - Like Jardiniere, I'm with Orange.fr.

If it's not too sensitive, can you e-mail it to one of us and we could try forwarding it.

[Florence Fennel]

Thank you all - I haven't a clue what free.fr is, but knowing BIL he has sought out a free service. Yes Nic, blacklisted by gum. I haven't had that treatment since being barred from a pub in Whitby. I've sent some mail today that has not yet been returned, so the 24-hr ban must be over!

[HotStuff]

Free.fr are a French ISP:

Freebox, la meilleure offre ADSL: Internet, Téléphone, Télévision

If it continues to be a problem, you could alway set your self up with a Googlemail address. Presuming the e-mail client you use is Outllok Express or something similar you could set it up as another mail account, so it would appear just like your existing mail rather than web-based.

[Florence Fennel]

Free.fr are a French ISP:

Freebox, la meilleure offre ADSL: Internet, Téléphone, Télévision

If it continues to be a problem, you could alway set your self up with a Googlemail address. Presuming the e-mail client you use is Outllok Express or something similar you could set it up as another mail account, so it would appear just like your existing mail rather than web-based.

Thanks Hotstuff. Looks like I'm going to have to find a way around it as today's mail has just been returned!

[HotStuff]

Just out of interest, who's your existing e-mail account with? Not ntlworld by any chance?

[Nicos]

When we moved to France- we were recommended Neuf.fr or Free.fr as the best offers and providers.
Orange is always 'easier' because if there are any problems then they will look at the outside AND the inside of the house- they can't do the Gallic shoulder shrug and blame the other 'supplier'

French internet is much more strict than UK suppliers- if you download music illegally- you're warned- then the second time you are banned totally from internet access!!!!

Maybe you need to look at your virus protectors etc ( no idea what I'm talking about to be honest- but I hardly ever get spam- and virtually never in the UK with Zen)....perhaps too much is getting through for the French liking???/ ( maybe it's a good thing???)

[HotStuff]

It's very unlikely it's anything to do with FF's PC. More likely spam is somehow being sent using one or more of the servers of FF's e-mail provider. If an ISP spots a lot of spam coming from another ISP's servers then this kind of situation can happen.

Some of the ISP's also use SORBS, which can be a right pain in the rear.

Spam and Open Relay Blocking System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Florence Fennel]

I'm with Blueyonder HS. It's a pain because we planned to update SIL and BIL every day about my MIL's condition without the need for long drawn out conversation (we're not best friends, just related!).

[HotStuff]

I'm with Blueyonder HS. It's a pain because we planned to update SIL and BIL every day about my MIL's condition without the need for long drawn out conversation (we're not best friends, just related!).

The plot thickens, blueyonder are now a part of VirginMedia as are ntlworld. If it was me I'd get another e-mail account such as Googlemail.

Hope your MIL is OK.

[Jardiniere]

Thank you all - I haven't a clue what free.fr is, but knowing BIL he has sought out a free service. Yes Nic, blacklisted by gum. I haven't had that treatment since being barred from a pub in Whitby. I've sent some mail today that has not yet been returned, so the 24-hr ban must be over!

Barred from a pub in whitby? why? which one? my friends and i were once refused service in the smugglers cafe...but that was in the 70's and one male friend had long hair.....

[Florence Fennel]

Also way back in seventies. Can't remember the name of the pub but sure it was a big one in the middle of Whitby! It was a girls only annual day trip by coach. Remember when the pubs didn't open until noon on Sundays? We all got off the coach and went into the pub at one minute past twelve, me at the front. "Are you not open yet?" I asked quite politely. The response was "Get out now, we don't want your sort in here, you're barred". We found another pub and had a smashing "session", but never went back to Whitby, it became an annual pilgrimage to Blackpool.