Bouncing e-mails
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simpo two

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Monday 16th February 2004
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Amazing; I solved this one before I posted the problem, so thought I'd share the glee...

I'd been trying to send an e-mail, no attachments, but it kept bouncing back with '550 Error: Message content rejected'.

Eventually I searched on Google and the first link was to a chap at Edinburgh University who's posted a question about this problem too. Apparently Freeserve is bouncing all e-mails with 'Hi' in the subject line as it's a characteristic of MyDoom.

I changed the subject line and - bingo - it went straight through. Hurrah!

So a gold star to Google for being so damn clever, and a pile of poo to Freeserve for not fitting antivirus software to their servers!!!