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Email verification issue? READ HERE
(feddit.uk)
Gmail marked as spam. Found it in there and could verify then
anyone who does find it in your gmail spam make sure to hit the "not spam" button to help with the email reputation
Same, marked as not spam
Did you purge the bot accounts @[email protected] ? Can see a material decrease which is actually good
Haha yeh i did there was around 3k bots accounts which I found and purged hadn’t liked or subscribed to any communities and their email was a distinct pattern
Thanks for the vigilance - most seem to just be joining and staying quiet. They're like a ticking time bomb.
Just want to say - that alone, I hope, isn't automatically an assumption of them being a bot. I rarely comment on threads - the only reason I'm even commenting now, is so that I can show that I am, in fact, a human.
No need to worry - there were clearly patterns in the bot accounts that give them away. I imagine the vast majority or folks signed up here haven't posted so you could hardly rely on just that as your criteria.
HEADS UP
Using a yahoo email address (yes they still exist). I found if I added admin@ to my contacts and then did the password reset that the emails came through and worked find.
I had literally no emails from feddit.uk before that they didn't hit my inbox so I couldn't report as not spam. For anyone signing up now, it might be worth adding admin@ to your contacts before you try.
A friend of mine is trying to register -- says he's emailed the admins twice but not heard back...
Sorry I've been really busy the last few weeks they should be verified now
I have been able to get onto the web interface by doing the password reset trick, after emailing twice about verifying my email and getting no reply. But I don’t seem to be able to log in via apps, like Memmy or WefWef, as they both still say my email is unverified.
edit: I am not the person referred to by @[email protected]
Sorry I’ve been really busy the last few weeks you should be verified now lmk if you're not
No worries, and thank you!
Received the verification email just fine (Fastmail) but then it took some effort to actually follow the link as my VPN (Windscribe) blocks all "tracking" links. Might confuse other users too.
Thanks for sorting mine out. Incidentally your reply to my email asking for help didn't get marked as spam (I use SpamAssassin, which scores the spamminess), just the automatic one sent from your instance.
I think the problem might be fairly temporary - looking at the headers, feddit.uk is already in the mspike whitelist and mspike h4 ("Very good reputation") - tests which reduce the "spaminess score" assigned by SA. The only one in the header I see now that increases spaminess score is the test URIBL_DBL_SPAM (Spamhaus DBL blocklist).
It's possible some of the text and/or formatting of the automated emails is increasing the spamminess score, at least how SA classifies mail.
Is this still being an issue for people?
Yes, I just tried to sign up and didn't get a verification email, but managed to use the forgot password to receive an reset password email (that did arrive) and that got me logged in and hopefully verified...
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2023
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