Spam Filters

[Desert Fox]

I am trying to send a message to a friend and it keeps getting bounced by my email server as spam.
I guess I am using some word somewhere and it does not like it. Tried to change around a few words but did not help.

Anyone have that issue?

I don't want to share the email because while there is nothing strange in there, it is a private discussion. Mostly about video games and role playing games.

[Belgarath]

Is it YOUR server or your friend's server?  Typically your server wouldn't bounce anything you're sending.

If you have the metadata (all of the address stuff at the top when you get it back) and you're comfortable doing so, you could send that to me in a PM, and I'll see if I can give you more information.

[Awatsjr]

Does it contain an attachment that is not a photo or video? Many servers will bounce .exe or .com attachments.

[Desert Fox]

Does it contain an attachment that is not a photo or video? Maybe servers will bounce .exe or .com attachments.

No. . . .No pictures even.
Had a private discussion with Belgarath and appears to be from Yahoo.

[Belgarath]

It's Yahoo's end.  And for email sometimes it can literally have nothing to do with the email itself.  If, as an example, your email address is in a domain that has a lot of spam (not the case for DF) you can get a bounce.  (Example: completelylegit@spam.com can bounce because of reports for lots of other spam from other addresses sending spam at the spam.com domain)

Essentially most of the large email providers (yahoo.com) have gone from a blacklist model to a whitelist model and if they don't recognize the part after the @ as being on their whitelist, they'll just block it as spam.  I have a few of my own domains and I literally route them through gmail, icloud, protonmail and fastmail simply because setting up your own email server results in emails that get rejected pretty much everywhere.

[arthwollipot]

Delivery Failure Reports always have a section where the reason for the bounce is stated. It can be a little hard to identify if you don't know what you're looking at, though.