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17 May 2019, 05:42 AM | #1 |
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Any reason for an increase in spam false positives?
In recent weeks, I'm seeing an increase in false positives getting shunted to my spam filter. An email from my wife went there, which never happened before. The same for a message from a colleague whose previous messages always went to my inbox; that one was costly because it was time-sensitive and I didn't see it in time.
I have one subscription to a service that sends me a message every weekday, and those have been going to Spam, even though I've been trying to retrain the filter by repeatedly marking them as non-spam. I've finally whitelisted the return address. I haven't changed my spam settings, and I'm not seeing the VADE MECUM code that was the subject of another thread, but it seems as if something is different.. |
17 May 2019, 07:34 AM | #2 |
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The full headers from the messages in question might be helpful in trying to suggest a cause. I have seen no uptick in false positives personally.
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17 May 2019, 11:45 AM | #3 |
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A few ideas on reducing false positives
I suggest that you not post the complete full headers of any email (for security and privacy reasons). But you can post these headers:
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18 May 2019, 12:37 AM | #4 |
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I have been seeing this to many ppl I send email to lately...... My message goes to spam!!
Why??? My dad has an email acct on yahoo and when I send him an email with a link,IT GOES TO THE JUNK FOLDER! (Didnt used to ever happen) Several times my email I send to a friend that uses AOL my stuff gets flagged and everything I send goes to her spam folder........ (Its a pain to remove it from there i guess) Is this something email providers are doing?? |
18 May 2019, 04:37 AM | #5 | |
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18 May 2019, 05:41 AM | #6 |
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Thank you Billy I realise this thread is on the fastmail sect but it isnt only happening on fastmail....
My friend on AOL does have me in her address book and I think my dad does I dunno..... This just started happening a few months ago....... (Anytime I email my dad with an http:// link it goes to spam (ANY LINK)) |
18 May 2019, 12:12 PM | #7 | |
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I assume you had your dad go to the Settings area in his Yahoo email and check the blocked addresses and filters. If not, he needs to read the Yahoo email help on spam filtering. Here is a test you dad can do: Send a message from his Yahoo account to himself. Use "Test" for the subject and "http://yahoo.com" for the message body. After sending that email to himself, it should show up in his inbox within a few minutes (Yahoo is often rather slow). When I try this, the message shows up in my Yahoo email inbox. If your theory is correct (all messages with a URL are treated as spam) he can easily see if this is true. It's possible that he set up a filter so that all messages with the string "http:" are filed to spam. IMHO, Yahoo and AOL are troublesome email systems. They have historically been known for being a target for spammers (both sending and receiving at that domain). But this is the Fastmail forum, so you need to either contact Yahoo and AOL for assistance or post messages in the general email support forum here at EMD if you want Yahoo and AOL users to respond. Bill (my name is NOT Billy) |
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18 May 2019, 12:21 PM | #8 |
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Thank you my friend for your assistance and kindness
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18 May 2019, 12:32 PM | #9 |
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The only thing worse than too much spam is too many false positives! I understand your concern and hope your family and friends get this repaired.
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