[WikiEN-l] Email confirmation - IMPORTANT

Rudy Koot r.koot at students.uu.nl
Thu Mar 2 07:25:52 UTC 2006


Zzyzx11 at Wikipedia wrote:
>> For some lovely reason our new mail server has been blacklisted by 
>> SpamCop,
>> allegedly for sending mail to spamtrap addresses. (They provide no 
>> details by
>> policy, of course, so there's no way to verify it.)
> 
> 
>> Since there's a tiny possibility that the user-to-user email feature 
>> actually could be
>> abused, I've gone ahead and enabled the e-mail confirmation 
>> requirement for using
>> email features. This is a bit annoying for the moment since you have 
>> to do it
>> separately on each wiki.
> 
> 
>> I've disputed the listing, so hopefully we'll get it removed soonish 
>> and those who
>> aren't getting email will, uh, start getting it again. --Brion 22:42, 
>> 1 March 2006 (UTC)

So how do I recieve my confirmation e-mail if the mail server is 
blacklisted? They should have enabled this sooned  (and definitly 
shouldn't disable it) as I don't always reply to Wikipedia e-mail simply 
because I don't know if the e-mail address of the sender is real.

Ruud



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