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 at http://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 <j...@qued.com> 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: <general-boun...@forums.jsoftware.com> > > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
