On Thursday 04 October 2018 21:35:58 J Leslie
Turriff wrote:
On 2018-10-03 09:48:21 William Morder wrote:
On Wednesday 03 October 2018 06:46:05 Baron
wrote:
> 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
Because I use kMail, I always turn off the spam filtering in my mail
provider's configuration and write my own local filters.
Leslie
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
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