Gmail keeps warning me about Thunderfall!

Valka D'Ur · Jun 30, 2012

For the past couple of days or so, I've been getting this message along with every single email I get from the forum (I have a lot of forum/thread subscriptions!):

This message may not have been sent by: thunderfall@gmail.com Learn more Report phishing

Is anyone else getting these? It's the sort of message I would expect to accompany blatant spam/phishing & scams (of which I get a fair bit each day too). But the real spam gets routed into my spam folder, and my CFC email doesn't (usually; there has been the odd time).

Anybody have any ideas what's causing this? Please don't tell me to contact Gmail - their help/customer service is nonexistent.

Thunderfall, what have you been up to, that my email doesn't trust you anymore?

ainwood · Jun 30, 2012

I assume that it's because it is sent by the CFC mail server, not a gmail server. Gmail notices this and warns you about it.

Valka D'Ur · Jun 30, 2012

I don't understand it - this only started happening a couple of days ago, and I've been getting my email notifications from here to my Gmail account for years. It's the same message I get when Gmail suspects phishing. :confused:

Cutlass · Jun 30, 2012

Probably it only recently got added to Gmail's watch lists.

Valka D'Ur · Jun 30, 2012

Any suggestions for getting it off? I can't mark it "not spam" because it never actually goes into the spam folder. I keep getting this message plastered on my emails that go into the inbox - every time.

The_J · Jun 30, 2012

Seems only the admins (maybe only TF) are able to do anyting about it (see here :/.

Valka D'Ur · Jun 30, 2012

Ah, thank you, The_J. :goodjob:

YOO-HOO, THUNDERFALL!

Please contact the sender or mailing list owner to alert them. The warning is usually a sign that they're not using best practices to authenticate their emails.

Ainwood, Plotinus, please alert Thunderfall to fix this! It's really annoying.

Thanks!

Thunderfall · Jul 2, 2012

I changed it yesterday. Did it help?

Before it was using thunderfall@gmail.com as webmaster email.
Now I changed it to use thunderfall@civfanatics.com.

The_J · Jul 2, 2012

IIRC ainwood changed that because some providers automatically treat @civfanatics as junk.
Can't say if it worked, because it seems the server is struggling so hard with the performance that it fails to deliver emails (didn't get mails for the last 3 reports in my area).
Edit: An interpretation which makes more sense is that it doesn't work and the emails directly get discarded. Didn't have a problem with @civfanatics.com before, so that would be a bit surprising. Could be checked what the problem is if the change was reverted

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The_J · Jul 2, 2012

I just received the emails...which should have arrived 12/14 hours ago.

Valka D'Ur · Jul 2, 2012

Thunderfall said:
I changed it yesterday. Did it help?

Before it was using thunderfall@gmail.com as webmaster email.
Now I changed it to use thunderfall@civfanatics.com.

Yes, that did the trick. Thanks!

The_J said:
I just received the emails...which should have arrived 12/14 hours ago.

My daily notifications have been wonky, too. I usually get them around midnight, Mountain Daylight Time. They didn't show up until this morning around 10:30 a.m. MDT.

Gmail keeps warning me about Thunderfall!

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