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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