[Advaita-l] Some mails are being disallowed in this forum

[jaldhar at braincells.com]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2026, V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l wrote:

> Again, a post from me with a video title in the header and the link in the
> body, has been rejected by:
>
> Mail Delivery Subsystem <mailer-daemon at googlemail.com>
>
> with a message:
> Message blocked
> Your message to *advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org* has been blocked. See
> technical details below for more information.
> The response from the remote server was:
>
> 550 5.7.1 Blocked by SpamAssassin
>
>
> Wondering why this is happening.
>

Short answer: advaita-vedanta.org uses open-source software called 
spamassassin to defend readers against spam and viruses.  Spamassassin 
uses statistical rules to try and guess if an email is spam or not.  These 
rules come from many sources oartly from the big free email vendors 
(Yahoo, Microsoft, Google.)  These big providers have just changed their 
definition of what is considered spam once again.  As a result some 
readers are getting blocked entirely while others such as yourself are 
seeing restrictions which were previously permitted.

Unfortunately this all happened while I was travelling internationally on 
business so I still need to investigate the complete extent of the 
problem.  For now, a  workaround is to include URLs in the body of the 
message not the subject.

  -- 
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>