Gmail users: EcoModder needs your (easy) help!

[MetroMPG]

Thanks again, guys.

[night9]

I Found a bunch of ecomodder emails in the spam folder. I marked all as not spam.

[Daox]

I'm bumping this. Thanks for you guys help so far.

We could really use more help though so #1 this stops, but also #2 it doesn't happen again in the future.

[Arragonis]

Checked mine and no Ecomodder posts in there as of now. I have had this before with GMail but marking one post as "not spam" clears it.

[t vago]

I think that a lot of the problem stems from the fact that EcoModder.com messages tend to superficially resemble spam. I have no trouble at all with Gmail with messages being sent from "EcoModder.Com" <webmaster@ecomodder.com>, for instance, but anything that falls outside of that seems to give Gmail fits. For instance, email that fits the pattern of "firstnameonly" <firstnameonly@ecomodder.com> would tend to be flagged.

I'd also strongly recommend to the Admin team to pass moderation-type messages using PM, either in addition to or instead of using emails. It seems that Gmail's spam filter also classifies moderation messages from here as spam.

[mechman600]

Had four Ecomodder message in my spam, including the last newsletter. Marked it as "not spam."

[MetroMPG]

Originally Posted by t vago

I think that a lot of the problem stems from the fact that EcoModder.com messages tend to superficially resemble spam.

Good points there. We do have a number of things we can do to make it less likely Google flags us. (They have guidelines...)

Good idea on the PM idea. First we'd need to offer users a way to opt out of newsletter PM's though, as we do with emailed ones.

[t vago]

Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Good idea on the PM idea. First we'd need to offer users a way to opt out of newsletter PM's though, as we do with emailed ones.

I don't think it'd be necessary to send the monthly newsletter as a PM. I was thinking more along the lines of actual admin team -> member communications, such as the one I got not too long ago from Darin. Gmail said that was spam (not a good thing), even though I continue to get automated thread update emails from EcoModder that are somehow not flagged as spam (and that's a good thing, there). Admin team -> member messages should not be blocked in PMs, anyhow.

[cptsideways]

I think it might help if the default in user CP was not "email me every day" in subscribed threads, just checked my spam folder & there hundreds of them in there.

[Daox]

Bumping this again this month. Please help out, thanks.