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    From BungleBob@bunglebob@thejungle.com to nz.comp on Sun Aug 17 20:11:06 2025
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    I just tried to send an email to someone with an "@xtra.co.nz" email
    address and it got rejected as supposed spam. I've sent emails to the
    same address before, including just yesterday.

    Doing a bit of online research, the problem has happened before with
    their email provider, but of course they simply keep passing the buck
    to each other without actually fixing the problem.

    Xtra / Yahoo email is a complete pain in the backside. :o(

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  • From Crash@nogood@dontbother.invalid to nz.comp on Sun Aug 17 20:40:27 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.comp

    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:11:06 +1200, BungleBob
    <bunglebob@thejungle.com> wrote:


    I just tried to send an email to someone with an "@xtra.co.nz" email
    address and it got rejected as supposed spam. I've sent emails to the
    same address before, including just yesterday.

    Doing a bit of online research, the problem has happened before with
    their email provider, but of course they simply keep passing the buck
    to each other without actually fixing the problem.

    Xtra / Yahoo email is a complete pain in the backside. :o(

    Not surprising. Xtra as a brand is long gone - a relic of the Telecom
    NZ days that Spark inherited. I have always believed that Xtra email
    users should migrate to a bona-fide email service provider such as
    gmail but for many that is 'too hard'.
    --
    Crash McBash
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  • From BungleBob@bunglebob@thejungle.com to nz.comp on Tue Aug 19 10:26:18 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.comp

    On 2025-08-17 08:11:06 +0000, BungleBob said:

    I just tried to send an email to someone with an "@xtra.co.nz" email
    address and it got rejected as supposed spam. I've sent emails to the
    same address before, including just yesterday.

    Doing a bit of online research, the problem has happened before with
    their email provider, but of course they simply keep passing the buck
    to each other without actually fixing the problem.

    Xtra / Yahoo email is a complete pain in the backside. :o(

    Looks like the Xtra email service is having big problems ... again!
    I've been told by the same person that the email sent to me yesterday
    bounced back with an error message, despite the fact that it did
    actually get through to me. :o\

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  • From Gordon@Gordon@leaf.net.nz to nz.comp on Thu Aug 21 05:05:15 2025
    From Newsgroup: nz.comp

    On 2025-08-17, Crash <nogood@dontbother.invalid> wrote:
    On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:11:06 +1200, BungleBob
    <bunglebob@thejungle.com> wrote:


    I just tried to send an email to someone with an "@xtra.co.nz" email >>address and it got rejected as supposed spam. I've sent emails to the
    same address before, including just yesterday.

    Doing a bit of online research, the problem has happened before with
    their email provider, but of course they simply keep passing the buck
    to each other without actually fixing the problem.

    Xtra / Yahoo email is a complete pain in the backside. :o(

    Not surprising. Xtra as a brand is long gone - a relic of the Telecom
    NZ days that Spark inherited. I have always believed that Xtra email
    users should migrate to a bona-fide email service provider such as
    gmail but for many that is 'too hard'.


    Better yet get your own domain and e-mail server.
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