Chris, you are quite likely correct. I started out using Postini - but
it was bought by Google (for their own use) and the guy I get services
from had to move - he chose Intel/McAfee - it is much less flexible than
Postini was (but hey, that's just me grumbling).
I was amused that my initial message, that you answered, was
quarantined. Further, when released Thunderbird filed it away as
junk/spam (I really suspect that is a result of all the X-[spam] header
lines...)
Thanks to the folks that answered, I'll try to reach out to support from
the spam filtering folks - sometimes (often) there is a workaround that
isn't obvious to me.
On 2015/09/10 12:30 , chris burke wrote:
This may be a problem with McAfee.
There have been no changes in forum email processing for some years.
However, every so often, maybe once or twice a year, google changes their
spam processing so as to identify ordinary forum posts as spam. Usually
when this happens the dip in traffic is obvious and I manually go through
the spam and get those messages posted; this seems to clear the spam
filters.
Apart from these episodes, google spam processing is pretty good, and it is
rare for a forum message to be treated as spam. Right now, there does not
seem to be a problem.
In any case, to check whether a forum post was received, visit the search
page athttp://www.jsoftware.com/forumsearch and click the search button to
get the most recent messages, which are updated every few minutes.
On 10 September 2015 at 11:43, Joey K Tuttle<[email protected]> wrote:
>I use a McAfee (Intel) spam filtering service. Recently the service has
>been declaring many J forum messages to be 99.9% certainly spam (and
>quarantining them).
>
>Even after I release them from the quarantine, my Thunderbird email client
>consistently stuffs them into a Junk mail folder. This action may by
>triggered by some X- tags. e.g. for a recent Roger Stokes message -
>
>X-Spam-Flag: YES
>X-Spam: [F=0.9999999511; B=0.500(0); STSI=0.500(-6); STSM=0.450(-6);
>CM=0.500; CY=0.50; MH=0.999(2015091011); S=0.200(2015072901); spf=0.500;
>SC=]
>X-MAIL-FROM:<[email protected]>
>
>It is interesting that, in this particular message, 117 of 179 total lines
>are mail header information (31 of them being X-... information lines).
>
>Unfortunately, the only way McAfee/Intel will whitelist emails is by
>"From: " address or domain. I like the fact that the sender's email address
>shows up as the original sender's address - but the shortsighted
>whitelisting facility means that every forum member may need to be
>whitelisted - a major PITA...
>
>Since some of my quarantined messages were from people that are frequent
>posters in J Forums, I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed such things
>(perhaps changing in the past few weeks).
>
>I suspect that some change in forum email processing (or maybe some
>"improvements" at gmail) may have precipitated this change in behavior.
>
>I may be forced to change my forum email address to one that doesn't go
>through a quarantine service - but I would prefer to avoid that.
>
>Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions about this?
>
>- joey
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