5 Oct
2018
5 Oct
'18
1:45 p.m.
On 2018-10-05 01:12:29 William Morder wrote:
On Thursday 04 October 2018 21:35:58 J Leslie Turriff
wrote:
Hmm... well, if you actually have SpamAssassin and/or BogoFilter running,
it's possible that the databases they've built up are causing false
positives? Perhaps there's a way to flush their content and start them
fresh?
Leslie
On 2018-10-03 09:48:21 William Morder wrote:
Same here, except that it doesn't work. I turn off all spam filtering in my
webmail accounts; and since I set Kmail to receive text-only (with the
option to click and view html), it doesn't much matter if I get spam,
because I can just delete it. (And when I enough spam to be bothered, I
have the option of using kshowmail, which allows me to preview emails and
delete them from the server without ever downloading them. It works nicely
in tandem with Kmail, but since dropping my old Earthlink account, I
haven't needed to use it.)
The thing is, I switched from Earthlink about 18 months ago, I changed
first to Gmail, and now use Zoho as my primary account; but now I don't
really get any spam to be filtered (except of course from Felix's Earthlink
account!). There is no reason for either Gmail or Zoho to block anything,
because I get virtually no spam, so I don't understand why, despite all my
best efforts, certain emails keep getting blocked by default. I can only
guess that their email addresses have turned up on some "master spam list"
out there that is used by various providers. I trust that they have been
blocked by mistake, and are not really spammers, but it's annoying.
Anyway, one keeps moving forward. I check my webmail occasionally, and
check the online record of the mailing list on Trinity's pages, and (unless
I have some sudden flash of insight) will leave such issues for others to
sort out.
Bill On Wednesday 03 October 2018 06:46:05 Baron
wrote:
Because I use kMail, I always turn off the spam filtering in my mail
provider's configuration and write my own local filters.
Leslie Hi John,
On Wednesday 03 October 2018 14:38:14 Pisini, John wrote:
> I'm on gmail as well. I have tried telling it they aren't spam and
> that works for a few messages and then drops them back to spam
> again.
>
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018, 9:35 AM Baron <baron(a)linuxmaniac.net> wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> > Is there something going on with Google (Gmail) and the list mail
> > ?
> >
> > There isn't any list mail shown when I go into my mail account.
> > But I can see my post and John Pisini's reply on line.
> >
> > Thanks John, but I've not had anything to go into the spam or
> > waste bin folders.
> >
> > --
> > Best Regards:
> > Baron
This is crazy ! I've not had a post from the list since the
16/09/18, until I posted that I wasn't getting any. I went and
checked my acc and there were no posts from the lists at all, not
even in the spam folder. Then I make a post and hey presto, I'm
getting my own mail and reply's back.
Weird !
Thanks John. At least it now seems to be working.
Google's algorithms know better than you what email you ought to be
reading.
For what it's worth, I've been getting warnings from the Trinity
mailing list that messages sent to my accounts are bouncing. I used to
have Gmail, but then I got wise and switched to Zoho mail, and things
got better ... for a while. Then I started getting the same messages.
I still get *most* of my messages. However, since I use Kmail on my
local machine, I sometimes don't know about missed messages unless they
get quoted by somebody else, or once in a blue moon when I actually log
in to my webmail accounts. Messages from Michele Calgaro always get
marked as spam; also, anything from the mysterious Liddell. Also I
think one or two others sometimes.
Since I seem to get most messages at least in quotation, and can find
the rest in my webmail accounts, I don't care enough to investigate;
but it would be nice to know the causes of these issues.
Bill