21 Feb
2025
21 Feb
'25
9:15 p.m.
On Friday 21 February 2025 12:15:58 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2025-02-21 08:35:12 gene heskett via tde-users
wrote:
Yeah, I am guessing that it is Gene's ISP that filters some of the more
obvious or egregious spam, as well as any attachments that look like they
could be something unwanted ... such as a shell script.
Almost certainly, no actual person looks at attachments, etc., but an
automated filter probably can detect a shell script, without knowing its
contents or purpose, or its origin, so it just gets blocked.
Maybe, if actual human beings knew that Gene was on a computer users mailing
list, and that we sometimes share such tips, tricks and scripts, they would
have recognized that it's probably okay. But automated filters aren't that
smart.
Bill
On 2/21/25 05:23, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users
wrote:
No, no. This would be something happening on an intermediate mail server
between the one that provides your mail service and your desktop.
Another possibility is that your email provider is gratuitously moving
mail items that it thinks are spam into the spam folder on their server, so
it never gets sent on to you. I'm having trouble with missing emails
myself at the moment, and while investigating I used the web mail interface
(I HATE it and only use it when I MUST (maybe once or twice a year), and
discovered 321 emails that had been held in the server's spam folder. I
had to call their customer support to find out how to defeat their
"helpful" intervention. Unfortunately, after they downloaded, the emails
I'm currently searching for were not in that batch, so the first
possibility is likely my problem.
Leslie On 2025-02-21 04:13:15 gene heskett via tde-users
wrote:
I haven't installed anything like that. that I know of. mail server is
mail2world via the local shentel cable tv company. On 2/21/25 00:30, J Leslie Turriff via tde-users
wrote:
> On 2025-02-20 06:31:55 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote:
>> On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:58:05 -0500
>>
>> gene heskett via tde-users <users(a)trinitydesktop.org> wrote:
>>> mailing list stripped the attachment.
>>
>> Came through for me (small attach with mimetype
>> "text/x-shellscript"), so it isn't the list that's at fault,
but
>> something else in your email setup.
>>
>> E. Liddell
>
> Probably a "Nanny" filter that disallows code attachments.
tbird beta user here, likely suspects?
Some mail server through which your email is routed en route to its
destination.