Date: 9/29/25 8:50 am From: David Scheu <00000454f801cafe-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: continuing problems with messages going to spam
Thank you William! I am glad to hear reports that this fix is working for gmail. I know this is a problem for many people, so I’d be grateful if anyone using an email service other than gmail has found a solution that works for them, would please share it here.
Dave Scheu
MOBirds-L list co-owner
St. Louis, MO
From: Missouri Wild Bird Forum <MOBIRDS-L...> On Behalf Of John and Linda Frederick
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2025 8:11 PM
To: <MOBIRDS-L...>
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...><mailto:<jaleonatti...>> wrote:
I followed that procedure. Have been waiting for someone to send a MoBirds message - voila', Steve's message came to my inbox!!!
On Fri, Sep 26, 2025, 7:57 PM Dianne & Steve Kinder <0000041e4c13219a-dmarc-request...><mailto:<0000041e4c13219a-dmarc-request...>> wrote:
WOW! Should we all really have to go through all that??
On Friday, September 26, 2025 at 09:52:03 AM CDT, William Terrell Stamps <stampst...><mailto:<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...><mailto:<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...><mailto:<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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