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Correcting Forum Email Message Problems
If you follow the steps below to "White List" the "forum@mraircheck.com" address in your email service, but still have problems, please don't hesitate to Let Us Know!
White-List the mraircheck Forum Now While You’re Thinking about it!
Important: AOL doesn't like emails from lots of legitimate sources, so if your email address is @AOL, @Compuserve, @Netscape or any other domain that AOL owns, please know that if you don't receive messages from the Georgygirl's Grapevine Forum, it's most likely because AOL has zapped it. You may want to let AOL know if you don't get the expected email message from us.
It's possible that Brightmail are also blocking emails... if you have Brightmail as a spam filtering system (Hotmail, Earthlink, MSN, Yahoo and many others, please check carefully for email from forum@mraircheck.com, and if it doesn't arrive, contact your internet service provider.
If you don't hear from us, it's not because we're not here, it's because email is unreliable.
We sometimes receive emails complaining that our forum registration or other messenging services don't function, when it has nothing to do with our service and everything to do with spam blockers and ISP's that like to play God.
Ask your IPS (internet service provider, such as AOL, MSN, Hotmail, Yahoo, etc.) to add this address to their white list:
forum@mraircheck.com
Use White-listing to Make Sure You Get Your Georgygirl's Grapevine Forum messages!
Unsolicited, unwanted advertising e-mail, commonly known as "spam", has become a big problem. It's reached such proportions that most e-mail services and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) have put some sort of blocking or filtering system in place or begun relying on self-proclaimed blacklists to tell the good guys from the bad.
We at mraircheck.com applaud their intention to protect you from spam, but everyone agrees that the current systems for stopping spam are far from a perfect solution. They often block e-mail that you've requested, but that fits somebody's idea of what spam looks like. The more responsible anti-spam activists are working hard to cut down on these "false positives", but in the mean time, you might unexpectedly find you're not getting the message(s) you're waiting for from the Grapevine Forum.
As it happens, there is something you can do to prevent your Georgygirl's Grapevine Forum messages from falling into the false positive trap.
You can fight the blacklists with a "white-list".
White-list us now, before your delivery is interrupted.
Of course, every e-mail system is different. Below are instructions for some of the more popular ones. If yours isn't here, please contact your ISP's customer service representatives for their instructions.
(Send a copy of the answer to us, and we might add it here!)
One vital thing you can do that helps no matter what e-mail system you're using is this...
Add this address to your address book:
forum@mraircheck.com
You don't want to send messages to that address as it is only a message forwarder used by the forum, but placing it in your address book will allow messages from that address to pass through most spam filters.
How can you avoid spam, but still ensure you receive messages from the Grapevine Forum?
1) If you use Hotmail, MSN or AOL: Add the email address:
forum@mraircheck.com
to your "Safe List"
2) If you use Yahoo or Netscape: Create a "filter" to ensure our Forum messages end up in your Inbox and not the Junk Mail or Bulk Mail folder
Instructions for some popular email services:
Yahoo!
Make sure the Grapevine Forum messages are delivered to your Yahoo Inbox (not the Bulk Mail folder), simply instruct Yahoo to filter it to your Inbox.
- Open your Yahoo e-mailbox.
On the right hand side of your screen you will see "Mail Options." Left click on this.
In the right hand column, under Management left click on "Filters." Then left click on "Add Filter."
- Call this filter Grapevine Forum -
- Under the heading "if all of the following rules are true ..." go to the top row labeled "From header."
Next to this you will see a drop down menu. Select "contains" & type in:
forum@mraircheck.com
- At the bottom it says "Move the message to:", select Inbox from the pull-down menu.
Then left click on the "Add Filter" button at the bottom.
Hotmail and MSN
Ensure that our Grapevine Forum messages are delivered to your Inbox by adding our "From" address to your "Safe List."
- Open your Hotmail or MSN e-mailbox.
On the menu bar running across the top of your inbox you will see an item labeled "Options." It is the second last item to the right.
Left click on "Options."
- In the new screen which opens, under "Mail Handling." Scroll down the page until you come to the item called "Safe List." Left click on this item.
- Type in the e-mail address:
forum@mraircheck.com
and click on the "Add" button,
When you see the address you entered in the Safe List box, left click on the button "OK."
AOL
If you're using AOL, you can ensure that our Grapevine Forum messages are delivered to your Inbox by setting your Mail Controls.
- Go to Keyword Mail Controls.
- Select your screen name
- Left Click "Customize Mail Controls For This Screen Name."
For AOL version 7.0: In the section for "exclusion and inclusion parameters", include:
forum@mraircheck.com
For AOL version 8.0: Select "Allow email from all AOL members, email addresses and domains."
- Left click on "Next" until the Save button shows up at the bottom.
- Left click on "Save."
Others
- Contact the customer service representative or the Postmaster at the company that provides your e-mail or Internet connection (your ISP).
Explain to them that the mraircheck forum is an e-mail list that you asked for and value. Ask them if they can white-list the mraircheck Forum messages.
They'll probably ask you for some information about us.
Here's what to tell them:
- Sending Address:
If they ask for our address, give your contact this email address:forum@mraircheck.com
- Domain:
If they need to know the domain we're mailing from, tell them this:@mraircheck.com
By the way, if for some reason you don't receive a Grapevine Forum message and must perform one or more of the processes described above, once you've established your white-list adjustments, simply return to the Georgygirl's Grapevine Forum, select the "Login" link then select the "Forgot password" item. A new message will immediately be sent to your address with instructions for completing your registration process or changing your password.
P.S. If you don't believe that your ISP is stealing your forum messages, go to:
http://www.deliverymonitor.com
and look at the stats for yourself....it's appalling!