BT Censoring Outgoing emails

[Blaketon]

Sorry your email could not be delivered due to content policy reasons. Please check your message content for URLs, content and subject matter that could be construed as Malware, Spam or Phishing before retrying. (6-1-3-1) ID (67490209006F006C)

I copy articles from time to time to friends from The Daily Telegraph and send them by BT webmail but regularly receive the above message which prevents me sending them Why is this?

[gg30340 · Accepted solution]

BT are not censoring you.

The BTMail system's spam filters, which can be over zealous,  suspect that the message you are sending is possibly spam for the reasons that are included in the message and as such they are stopping you from sending the email on their email system in attempt to cut down/stop the millions of spam emails that are sent every day.

It may also be that if you are using a VPN the IP address that the VPN has allocated you is on a blacklist. If you are using a VPN try sending it with the VPN turned off to see if it will go through.

[Blaketon]

No VPN. The Telegraph doesn't write articles whose content may be construed as Malware etc.. This is not being "over zealous", it is preventing me from sending perfectly sensible documents. I suspect their AI programmes are biased against non-woke content.

[licquorice]

No, it's just incompetence

[rbz5416]

I would venture that preventing the dissemination of the sort of bilge typically served up by the Torygraph is bordering on a public service. 😁

But maybe there's an element of copyright infringement, given that the Telegraph lives behind a paywall?

[VeteranISPUser]

I was trying to email my sister in law, to tell her I had bought the Ninja Air Fryer she recommended. The emails kept bouncing until I took out the word "Ninja" 🤔