Apparently "its contents are typical for spam e-mails".
While this won't be an issue for emails coming established domains such as the Wikimedia projects and whatnot use, for smaller projects it can be quite problematic.
Version: 1.21.x
Severity: normal
URL: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126#delivery
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invalid | None | T99444 Valid email address was unconfirmed for temporary spam blacklisting | |||
| Resolved | None | T104871 Mails from tools are being marked as 'spam' by gmail | |||
| Invalid | None | T54915 HTML email notifications caught by spam filters | |||
| Declined | • chasemp | T61731 mailman emails taking long time for delivery, getting stuck in sodium | |||
| Resolved | • chasemp | T58414 Get mail relay out of Yahoo! blacklist: apply to Yahoo for whitelisting bulk mail | |||
| Open | None | T64704 Account creation by email often winds up marked as spam |
What does "often" mean? Any numbers? Any software / mail provider info?
Any headers of spam software available rating the email content / threshold?
It's happened at least twice from uncyclomedia with gmail. I'm afraid I don't really know what the rest of that means.
I can confirm this happening, as it has happened on all Brickimedia (http://www.brickimedia.org) projects since it launched. Not only is it an issue with account creation emails but also new talk page notification emails and every other type of email I've seen MediaWiki send (i.e. SocialProfile-related ones, Echo-related ones, etc).
(In reply to Isarra from comment #0)
Apparently "its contents are typical for spam e-mails".
I don't see how this is solvable.
Any proposals how to make its content not typical for spam emails, which is not about dropping all links or adding random words, so we don't end up looking like spam mail that tries to work around looking like spam mail?
This is a confirmed bug (at least two wikifarms have experienced it), and makes running a not-super-modified MediaWiki installation difficult.
Emails being marked as spam by one of the largest email providers is definitely not low priority, nor is it an "enhancement" request.
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #4)
(In reply to Isarra from comment #0)
Apparently "its contents are typical for spam e-mails".
I don't see how this is solvable.
Might require talking to some people from Google to see what they recommend doing. Or see what other open source projects do to work around this, as MW isn't the only one that sends automated emails like this.
It would also be nice to see if other MW users have experienced similar issues.
(In reply to Kunal Mehta (Legoktm) from comment #5)
This is a confirmed bug (at least two wikifarms have experienced it), and
makes running a not-super-modified MediaWiki installation difficult.
Funny, I've never once had my account creation e-mails (WMF or otherwise) ever marked as spam by Gmail or any other provider for that matter.
I don't doubt the reporters that it's happening to them, but let's not make sweeping generalizations about running MediaWiki without more data :)
This might be due to wrong headers like
From: testwiki <apache@localhost>
I just checked my inbox, and I found things like this coming up. If a proper address is unset, the mailer should use $wgSMTP['username']@$wgSMTP['host'] or something like that, and not allowing sending From 'apache@localhost' which can look like SPAM.