Does The Mail (from Israel) Get Through?

Posted by Dan | July 6, 2008 | Category: The New Web |

I was at a reception last night where quite a few attendees at the Hartman Institute’s summer program were also in attendance. And I heard something I found hard to believe.

E-mail sent to any Comcast.net address from an Israeli IP address is automatically blocked.

Have any of our readers had personal experiences where they can speak either way to this statement?

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2 Comments so far

  1. Miriam Schwab
    July 8th, 2008

    | 9:28 am

    Actually, someone else just brought this problem to my attention. She said that all mail originating from Israel was being bounced by
    their US based mail host. (A huge US host BTW called WestHost). The didn’t understand why until one of their customers told them that every Israeli domain was just blacklisted on
    dnsbl-3.uce.protectnet so if you have SPAM filtering from your host or provider, ALL email from Israel will be not just be treated as SPAM but denied and returned. You won’t even know about the denials, you just won’t get the emails.

    Someone really needs to look into this, because if this is really happening, it is very serious.

  2. Dan
    July 8th, 2008

    | 9:33 am

    As an update, I was told by an ESP (email service provider) that Comcast.net blocks ALL email coming from outside the U.S.

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