Date: 9/26/25 6:02 pm From: Jean L <jaleonatti...> Subject: Re: continuing problems with messages going to spam
I followed that procedure. Have been waiting for someone to send a MoBirds message - voila', Steve's message came to my inbox!!!
Jean Leonatti <jaleonatti...>
On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 7:57 PM Dianne & Steve Kinder < <0000041e4c13219a-dmarc-request...> wrote:
> WOW! Should we all really have to go through all that?? > > Steve Kinder > <dmkinder...> > > On Friday, September 26, 2025 at 09:52:03 AM CDT, William Terrell Stamps < > <stampst...> wrote: > > > This is a work-around that has worked for me if using Gmail: > > (1) Click on any email message from MOBIRDS to open it (Doesn't have to be > one of the "spam" emails) > (2) from the list of icons above the email, click on the 3 vertical dots > (3) Select "Filter messages like these" > (4) Delete whatever email is in the "From" section and leave it blank <-- > THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT! > (5) In the "Has the words" section, add <MOBIRDS-L...> > (6) Click on the "create filter" button > (7) on the next page, select "Never send it to spam" > (8) also select the last box- "Apply filter to "x" matching conversations. > The number "x" will vary depending on how many messages you have from > MOBIRDS > (9) I also suggest selecting "Apply a label" and creating a "MOBIRDS" > label so that all future MOBIRDS emails will be automatically labeled as > such > (10) When back in your inbox, look at your list of labels on the left-hand > side of the screen, click the 3 dots by the MOBIRDS label and select a > bright color (I use white text on a blue background). This makes it easy to > spot all the MOBIRDS emails. > > Make sure you do #4 above when setting this up > > It is an inelegant solution, but seems to work, and you will still get > annoying grey box messages because Gmail really, really wants to send these > emails to spam. The message states: "This message was not sent to spam > because of a filter you created" and gives you the opportunity to click on > a "Report not spam" button (which, unfortunately, you will have to do for > every individual person's email that Gmail considers spam). But the emails > will remain in your inbox, not the spam folder. > > The reason this works is that while the email messages are technically > coming from a person's individual email address, they are actually routed > through the listserve, so creating filters that have the person's email in > the "From" section only applies to that particular person. The > <MOBIRDS-L...> is always somewhere in the emails, so the > filter catches everything. This filter will also catch any email that has > the listserve address in it even if it doesn't come from MOBIRDS, but I > think that would be rare. > > Terrell > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > The Missouri Birding Society's Wild Bird Discussion Forum > > List archives: https://po.missouri.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MOBIRDS-L > MBS Website: http://mobirds.org/ > Questions or comments? Email the list owners: mailto: > <mobirds-l-request...> > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://po.missouri.edu/SCRIPTS/wa.exe/wa?SUBED1=mobirds-l&A=1 > ABA Birding Code of Ethics: http://www.aba.org/about/ethics.html > > MBS Fall Meeting: September 19-21. Springfield Hilton Garden Inn > Details and registration: https://mobirds.org/MBS/NextMeeting.aspx > > ------------------------------ > *The Missouri Birding Society's Wild Bird Discussion Forum* > Archives <https://po.missouri.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=MOBIRDS-L> / Subscription > options <https://po.missouri.edu/SCRIPTS/wa.exe/wa?SUBED1=mobirds-l&A=1> > / MBS Website <http://mobirds.org> / Email the list owners > <mobirds-l-request...> > > ABA Birding Code of Ethics <http://www.aba.org/about/ethics.html> > > MBS Fall Meeting: September 19-21. Springfield Hilton Garden Inn >
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