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27 Jul 2019, 06:49 AM | #31 |
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This working well depends on the receiving mail system. Many systems make forwarding unreliable with DMARC. Forwarding can make SpamAssassin less effective unless it's been configured to parse Received headers across each forwarding service. I don't know what the current situation is, but Fastmail has in the past put a lot of effort into making it work. The problem is that Fastmail may decide to stop bothering, or even implement DMARC rejection, or you might have another reason to leave. At that point you may struggle to find a good replacement. There's also the possibility that the organization providing the portable address discontinues the service, outsources it to Yahoo or replaces it with their own webmail. IIWY I'd get a domain and forward it to Fastmail while you phase-out the portable address gradually. |
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After more discussion with FM they said they would look into my forwarding service to see if they were a "trusted forwarder such that mail they forward will not be penalized for DMARC failures". It didn't take much convincing for them to add my service to their whitelist so all is good forwarding from my service (see below) including the case that triggered this problem to begin with. Quote:
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As for my original ticket, I believe that if I have someone in my contacts then I want mail from them in my inbox no matter what! So if X-Spam-known-sender says "no" but still says "in-addressbook" I let those through to my in-box. I'll decide whether those are valid or not. So in the end, with this test in place, for me, it doesn't matter how DMARC affects X-Spam-known-sender (unless "in-addressbook" gets removed or course). Last edited by xyzzy : 27 Jul 2019 at 06:55 PM. |
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29 Jul 2019, 03:41 AM | #33 |
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I had a similar address which I haven't really used in 20 years. It was recently converted to an ordinary email account after a survey confirmed that few members still find a portable email address useful.
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14 Aug 2019, 03:37 PM | #34 | |
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30 Aug 2019, 06:17 PM | #35 | |
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I also cannot see this option. However I notice that I do get the spam score added for anything higher than x set in "move message with a spam score of x". ...perhaps they just automated it? |
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31 Aug 2019, 04:30 AM | #36 |
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Yes. They re-enabled it for me. I already had a closed ticket from last year when this problem first appeared so I reopened that ticket to report it. It was fixed pretty quickly.
I don't think it's automated. In the spam folder they also show the badge with the spam score too. I assume the use of the Spam Protection setting is still in place even if the option disappears to set it. I don't know why that Spam Protection option appears to be so "volatile". Last edited by xyzzy : 31 Aug 2019 at 04:43 AM. |
31 Aug 2019, 04:37 AM | #37 |
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great - I think I will give it a try too.
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