Why is my email being treated as spam?

Question

I am trying to contact a company for a possible sponsorship when I send my message I get a postmaster delivery failure. Rather than it being the normal hotmail one it is one from the company who I am trying to send the email to. It is getting sent back by a spam filter or something. I have tried this about 5 times, each time removing things that I think might be setting off the filter.

here is the message I am getting:


Diagnostic information for administrators:


(company contact)
#550 5.7.1 RESOLVER.RST.AuthRequired; authentication required ##rfc822;marketing@(company)

Original message headers:

Received: from RCAMPANELLA.(company) (10.1.1.39) by BRuth.(company)
(10.1.1.3) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.3.83.0; Tue, 7 Aug 2012
14:31:07 -0400
X-ASG-Debug-ID: 1344364266-04d8530d3e702f70001-TLydp8
Received: from blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com (blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com
[65.55.116.88]) by RCAMPANELLA.(company) with ESMTP id 0TXZAqo0VWrVJoxy
for (Company); Tue, 07 Aug 2012 14:31:06 -0400 (EDT)
X-Barracuda-Envelope-From: (me)
X-Barracuda-Apparent-Source-IP: 65.55.116.88
Received: from BLU162-W2 ([65.55.116.72]) by blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com
with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Tue, 7 Aug 2012 11:31:06 -0700
Message-ID:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="_3c64d136-d2c5-4fd1-91ca-64676d779b83_"
X-Originating-IP: [71.241.153.57]
From: (Me)
To: (company)
Subject: Sponsorship
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 14:31:06 -0400
X-ASG-Orig-Subj: Sponsorship
Importance: Normal
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Aug 2012 18:31:06.0641 (UTC) FILETIME=[CEDCE010:01CD74CA]
X-Barracuda-Connect: blu0-omc3-s13.blu0.hotmail.com[65.55.116.88]
X-Barracuda-Start-Time: 1344364266
X-Barracuda-URL: http://10.1.1.39:8000/cgi-mod/mark.cgi
X-Virus-Scanned: by bsmtpd at utzsnacks.com
X-Barracuda-Bayes: INNOCENT GLOBAL 0.5594 1.0000 0.7500
X-Barracuda-Spam-Score: 0.75
X-Barracuda-Spam-Status: No, SCORE=0.75 using global scores of TAG_LEVEL=1000.0 QUARANTINE_LEVEL=2.5 KILL_LEVEL=6.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE
X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.2, rules version 3.2.2.104970
Rule breakdown below
pts rule name description
---- ---------------------- --------------------------------------------------
0.00 HTML_MESSAGE BODY: HTML included in message
Return-Path: (my email)

I hope this explains the situation, this message doesn't really make any sense to me and we don't have an admin or anyone I can ask about this.

Thanks in advance, any help would be great.

If this doesn't help what kind of things usually set off filters like this?

Answer 1

You may want to look into your contents again see if you have the problems below:



a) Using HTML for your email body. Use plain text instead.

b) Having too many external links. Avoid too many links in your contenct.

c) Contains of too many 'Spam' phrases such as "free", "sign up", "offers", "lose weight", "lottery" and so on

Answer 2

it seems like they are using barracuda as a filtering service and they don't like your source ip (where you're sending from): verizon



http://www.spamhaus.org/query/ip/71.241.153.57

click the "listed" link for more details

try sending again but from a friend's house.



from the headers they also do not like html markup in the body of the email. try composing using "no markup" or "plain text".

Answer 3

try using another e-mail account.

I have this happen to me once or twice a month with yahoo mail

Answer 4

Amazed that I found this question already answered! its like you've read my mind!