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Quite possibly. I turned it off for the registered usergroup, and seems to have coincided with the problem being fixed.
Instant e-mail notifications have stopped being sent
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Quite possibly. I turned it off for the registered usergroup, and seems to have coincided with the problem being fixed.
Which registered usergroup? My CFC email notifications are still going straight to spam. That's not what I would call "fixed."
I'm pretty sure he's referring to the problem that the forum has been used to produce spam, not that gmail is still treating it as spam. I guess that might take some days til it's most likely resolved by itself.
croxis
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From chat just now:
EDIT: Jaek24 came in and reported no email either.
EDIT: Jaek24 came in and reported no email either.
Trystero
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FWIW, my experience is that gmail is still treating CivFanatics email notifications as spam. Even when I mark them as "not spam", subsequent messages are still directed to my gmail spam folder.
croxis
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Some mail providers will autoadd ips/domains to their blacklist. There are ways to check and remove.
croxis
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New user wants activation in chat: professorttz
User changed their email: Raph
User changed their email: Raph
fulano
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If this helps with troubleshooting, here's my experience today.
I just had to reset my password for some reason and I had to fill out the form five times before one e-mail showed up with the reset password link. It was in my g-mail spam folder.
I went to that link four or five times and the new password e-mail never arrived, so I decided to wait.
Four hours later one e-mail with my new password and three e-mails with the reset password link showed up in my spam folder. The timestamp said 9 AM, though I think I clicked these links around 8 AM.
I clicked "not spam" every time and it still gets sent to spam. Perhaps this is a g-mail problem? Maybe they are scanning the e-mails because they think they are spam.
EDIT:
Okay, the last password reset e-mail showed up a day later, still in spam.
I just had to reset my password for some reason and I had to fill out the form five times before one e-mail showed up with the reset password link. It was in my g-mail spam folder.
I went to that link four or five times and the new password e-mail never arrived, so I decided to wait.
Four hours later one e-mail with my new password and three e-mails with the reset password link showed up in my spam folder. The timestamp said 9 AM, though I think I clicked these links around 8 AM.
I clicked "not spam" every time and it still gets sent to spam. Perhaps this is a g-mail problem? Maybe they are scanning the e-mails because they think they are spam.
EDIT:
Okay, the last password reset e-mail showed up a day later, still in spam.
No, they by default always went to inbox or spam. I do not have a rule set up to place them elsewhere.
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For problems with Gmail putting CFC notifications into the SPAM folder. Here are two solutions:
For non-Gmail e-mail clients there should be a (another) way to create a white list filter for CFC notifications. Check the documentation for doing so; it is usually not too difficult to do.
Sun Tzu Wu
- Put the from address in the CFC notifications into your contacts list. Gmail will not put e-mail from any of your contacts into SPAM.
- Create a filter matching the from address in the CFC notifications and select the action "Never put into the SPAM folder".
For non-Gmail e-mail clients there should be a (another) way to create a white list filter for CFC notifications. Check the documentation for doing so; it is usually not too difficult to do.
Sun Tzu Wu
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another user poking around #civfanatics chat without authorization email:
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[17:33:35] <jnsimp> anyone else having an issue not getting the registration email?How do I do this? The closest thing I can find is "inviting to chat." I don't want to chat with Thunderfall. I just want my email notifications to appear in the right part of my gmail account.
I would like it even better if we weren't discussing workarounds to a problem that's been going on for an annoyingly long time. I'm not inclined to muck around with a second email account just for one site.
Trystero
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Just hover your cursor over the email address in your inbox. A pop-up will appear, and you can click on the "Add to contacts" option. However, this didn't stop CivFantics from being sent to Spam for me.
I tried hovering, and didn't get any popups. Does it matter that I've got Ad Block Plus enabled?
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Try the second method of adding a filter in Gmail and selecting the "Never move to SPAM folder". That should definitely work. Note that this action is not available in Gmail's Basic HTML. I had to switch from Basic HTML to the more advanced mode that provides chat. After creating this filter, I went back to Basic HTML mode and now
There should be an add filter link near the top of the main Gmail web page (where a list of your latest e-mail subject lines are displayed).
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Trystero
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Maybe. Try this: In the upper left corner of your Gmail window there should be a Gmail button with a drop-down menu (It's just above the "Compose" button in my browser). If you click on the drop-down menu and select "Contacts" from the list, you can manually add CivFanatics to your contact list.
Again, this didn't stop CivFanatics emails from being sent to my Spam folder, but YMMV.
edit: x-post with STW
Again, this didn't stop CivFanatics emails from being sent to my Spam folder, but YMMV.
edit: x-post with STW
Trystero
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Thanks. I'll try that.
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