[Mediawiki-l] My confirmation mail gets tagged as spam. Why and what to do?

[Jim Hu]

You should also check with Spam clearhouse services like Spamhaus and  
see if you've been listed as a spam site.  This can happen if the  
mailer is set up incorrectly.   Unfortunately I can't find my notes  
on what I did to fix it, but I think it has to do with whether a  
reply to the sending address gets bounced.  After changing our  
configs, we had to go and request delisting from the spam blockers.

Jim

On Jul 19, 2007, at 6:23 AM, Thomas Anderson wrote:

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> I installed mediawiki using apt-get in Debian Etch.
> When I click the "confirm email" as a wiki user, the confirmation mail
> gets tagged as spam in both gmail and hotmail accounts.
>
> Here is a copy of my mail header and mail body:
>
> ######################################################################
>
> Delivered-To: carneocNOSPAM at gmail.com
> Received: by 10.70.23.10 with SMTP id 10cs357559wxw;
>         Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:31:54 -0700 (PDT)
> Received: by 10.70.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr2586186wxz.1184841114311;
>         Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:31:54 -0700 (PDT)
> Return-Path: <www-dataNOSPAM at neo101.org>
> Received: from neo101.org (neo101.org [64.22.109.195])
>         by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h39si3086536wxd. 
> 2007.07.19.03.31.53;
>         Thu, 19 Jul 2007 03:31:54 -0700 (PDT)
> Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of www-dataNOSPAM at neo101.org
> designates 64.22.109.195 as permitted sender)
> Received: from www-data by neo101.org with local (Exim 4.63)
> 	(envelope-from <www-dataNOSPAM at neo101.org>)
> 	id 1IBTIX-00018A-Iu
> 	for carneocNOSPAM at gmail.com; Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:31:53 -0400
> To: Tommy <carneocNOSPAM at gmail.com>
> Subject: Neo101wiki e-mail address confirmation
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> X-Mailer: MediaWiki mailer
> From: www-dataNOSPAM at neo101.org
> Message-Id: <E1IBTIX-00018A-Iu at neo101.org>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 06:31:53 -0400
>
>
> Someone, probably you from IP address 213.112.81.182, has  
> registered an
> account "Tommy" with this e-mail address on Neo101wiki.
>
> To confirm that this account really does belong to you and activate
> e-mail features on Neo101wiki, open this link in your browser:
>
> http://neo101.org/mediawiki/index.php/Special:Confirmemail/ 
> 8536ac84c819099d32acdfe4a30936a2
>
> If this is *not* you, don't follow the link. This confirmation code
> will expire at 2007-07-26 10:31:53.
>
> ######################################################################
>
> How did you solve this problem? I would give a bad first impression  
> if I
> were to ask my users to look for the confirmation mail in their  
> spam-box.
>
> P.S. I added the "NOSPAM" textstring by hand in this email.
>
> - --
> Regards,
>
> Thomas Anderson
> "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur"
>
> OpenPGP fingerprint: ED7E 1E98 225A 3FCC 458C B3D7 D625 20E6 F316 BD21
> OpenPGP public key: http://todu.dyndns.org/pubkey.txt
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> Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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> iD8DBQFGn0m+1iUg5vMWvSERAgFcAJ4jpjhOiBYNCFDkkO+5mFZxM0uMGwCfW5WJ
> NG5FBFOe2tLDRXkm9cyOXHc=
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Jim Hu
Associate Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics
2128 TAMU
Texas A&M Univ.
College Station, TX 77843-2128
979-862-4054