For some time now I have had a problem with receiving notifications from these forums. Every now and then I don't receive one and only find out when I browse the recent posts. At first I blamed this site ofcourse (as any selfish sod would), then I thought it might be GMail. So, I changed my profile to send notifications to a Bluebottle account but I was still missing the odd notification. Recently, I changed to a Yahoo account and for the period tested did not miss any notifications. I have since reverted to GMail and again within a couple of days have missed a notification. I suspect that both GMail's and Bluebottle's mail servers are filtering out what they think is spam before the mail gets to my accounts. Why they selectively pick those particular notifications is a mystery.
Anyway, I would be interested to hear of your experiences, if any.
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27-06-2007, 09:50 AM #1
GMail not receiving all mail
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27-06-2007, 10:00 AM #2
discobay : are you on Gmail right now? I can check what got delivered and drop you a quick note via email.
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27-06-2007, 10:01 AM #3
Yes please do.
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27-06-2007, 10:04 AM #4
Done .. sent you the number of emails that were delivered from our server and accepted by gmail.
Do those emails end up in the spam / bulk mail folder?
Ironically, Yahoo has been the most problematic for us.
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27-06-2007, 10:11 AM #5
Got it thanks. Can't consolidate this time as I've already deleted the notifications (>2GB of space and I still delete!). The missing emails don't get tagged as spam. Why is Yahoo problematic?
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28-06-2007, 10:44 PM #6
I'm guessing because of its spam filters and how it only takes one user marking your mail as spam (whether intentionally or not) to make it very troublesome for you to send to yahoo. It's a common problem with spam filters, false positives.
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29-06-2007, 07:57 AM #7
Sunfire - yep. Too many false positives on yahoo / msn.
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29-06-2007, 10:58 AM #8
i know of some people who complain about gmail filtering system, i believe you cant switch it off.
