Email Messages Triggering Spam Filter [WAS: Re: How to configure the budget report to put a zero or space in bgt & diff columns]

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 5:18 AM, Dave Koelmeyer <
dave.koelmeyer at davekoelmeyer.co.nz> wrote:

>
> On 22/07/14 06:58, Steve Nospam wrote:
>
>> Hmmm, you are correct.  I'm not sure why I had a problem before but I'm
>> really happy that I can work with the exported file as it is!  Thanks.
>>
>
> Off-topic: apparently by virtue of your rather unique surname, every
> single email from you is being dumped straight into my junk email folder.
> You might want to think about changing this as other recipients may be
> missing mail from you.
>
>
Actually I believe it ISN'T the user's name causing Steve Nospam's email to
get trapped. It's more likely due to a change in Yahoo domain registrations
(effective April 2014 if I recall correctly) intended to reduce email
abuse, but also causes all yahoo messages to be flagged as spam when
re-directed through certain email lists (such as GnuCash's). I believe this
has been mentioned on this list a couple of times in the past month.

Technically, yahoo's domain setting indicates that only yahoo's official
servers are allowed to handle email from their domains. Email lists that
modify email headers so that the messages appear to come from the list
server will still work OK.

I believe this change affects yahoo.com email as well as many of the
domains they manage email for -- ymail.com, att.com, sbcglobal.net, etc.

One workaround would be for those affected to choose another provider for
your email list messages. Another workaround is to add a spam exception to
your filters for the GnuCash list. (This is what I did in my Gmail account.
Gmail still indicates the messages that WOULD have been trapped as spam.)

Alternatively the GnuCash lists could start modifying email headers, a
change to long-standing policy.