[NCUC E-team] Gmail directing NCUC emails to spam

[Renata Aquino Ribeiro]

Hi Tapani

Thanks for this response
I`ll follow it up w/ EC and get back here about the issue

On Mon, Jul 9, 2018 at 7:03 AM, Tapani Tarvainen
<ncuc at tapani.tarvainen.info> wrote:
> Hi Renata,
>
> There is no easy solution. Basically the problem comes from
> spam-detection techniques that try to verify messages come only from
> authorized machines, and that tends to break mailing lists.
>
> E.g., when Google sees a message with sender something at gmail.com
> coming from a non-google machine like ncuc list server, it considers
> it a probable forgery.
>
> If you have your own domain (like I do) you can add known list
> servers to authorized machine list, but with Google &c that is
> obviously not possible (unless you are Sergei Brin or something).
>
> So you'll have to work with whatever options Gmail (or Hotmail
> or Yahoo or whatever you use) offers.
>
> For Google, look at
>
> https://support.google.com/mail/answer/1366858
>
> and specifically at "Messages from an unconfirmed sender".
>
> Besides simply marking messages as "not spam", you can add
> senders one by one as trusted:
>
> https://support.google.com/mail/answer/185812#trusted_sender
>
> As far as I can tell that really needs you to mark each member of the
> mailing list separately as trusted, so not exactly convenient.
> And I haven't tested to see if it actually works.
>
> Alternative would be creating @ncuc.org aliases for everyone on the
> list. That would also require everyone to set their email program to
> use that address with the list (doable with Google as well as many
> standalone email programs). So even less convenient, probably not
> worth it unless such addresses are desired for other reasons.
>
> Tapani
>
>
> On Jul 07 12:48, Renata Aquino Ribeiro (raquino at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> 3 EC members reported not getting emails from NCUC lists because Gmail
>> flags them as spam
>> I remember we had a similar issue before and it could be solved.
>> Would be grateful if anyone could shed a light.
>> Copying Tapani, as I remember was who followed up on this previously.