Date: 9/26/25 6:11 pm From: John and Linda Frederick <frederickjohnandlinda...> Subject: Re: continuing problems with messages going to spam
I followed those steps as well and messages have come through to my in box.
I will add that I couldn't do this from my (Android) phone, but instead had
to go to our laptop. The "create filter" option wasn't available on
my phone.
Linda Frederick
Rolla MO
On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 8:02 PM Jean L <jaleonatti...> wrote:
> 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
>>
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