[Rhodes22-list] Problems with the gmail spam filter

Hank hnw555 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 20:06:21 EDT 2008


I've already added it to the contacts.  It's not everyone that goes to spam,
just the odd one here and there.

Have any of you other gmail users out there noticed this?  Brad?  Slim?

Hank

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 4:22 PM, John Lock <jlock at relevantarts.com> wrote:

> Hank,
>
> There is no official e-mail header called "Mailed by:".  Google is
> gleaning that information out of the actual e-mail headers and
> presenting it that way to make it easier to understand.  Their advice
> is to contact the sender to "authenticate" their message.  Not
> exactly sure what they mean by this.
>
> But it's problematic for most mailing lists.  The central problem is
> that list mail does not really come from the originator.  It comes
> from the list server.  So, by Google's definition, ALL mail coming
> from list servers could be considered spam because the originator and
> actual sender will never match.
>
> One thing might be worth a try is to add
> "rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org" to your Google Contacts.  That's
> the internal sender address that the list server uses and it might be
> enough to get Google to leave list mail alone.
>
> Cheers!
> John
>
>
> >I've recently noticed that some of the emails from the list are showing up
> >in my spam folder.  A little research on gmail came up with the following
> >article.
> >
> >http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10514
> >
> >It looks like it may be because the rhodes list emails do not have a
> "Mailed
> >by" field.  I checked some of my other emails and they all have this
> field.
> >Can this be fixed?
>
>
>
>
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Hank
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