Captain's Log

[Joe]

I don't know whether this is the right place to post this, but I just looked in my "Spam" box in GMail and found that recent e-mails from VV are being automatically labelled as spam and shunted into the spam box. GMail says something about the sender violating Google's recommended e-mail sending policy. It refers to this page:

Bulk Senders Guidelines - Gmail Help

I have no idea what this gobbledegook means.

 

[Second Summer]

I don't know whether this is the right place to post this, but I just looked in my "Spam" box in GMail and found that recent e-mails from VV are being automatically labelled as spam and shunted into the spam box. GMail says something about the sender violating Google's recommended e-mail sending policy. It refers to this page:

Bulk Senders Guidelines - Gmail Help

I have no idea what this gobbledegook means.

Thanks for letting me know, Joe. Will look into it. Issues like this make it increasingly difficult to successfully run an independent Internet forum.

 

[Blobbenstein]

How can anyone 'violate' a recommendation?

 

[Second Summer]

I've just upgraded the forum software to the latest version. No new features, just bug fixes.

How can anyone 'violate' a recommendation?

It's their way or the highway, it seems.

 

[Blobbenstein]

tried to start a poll in an existing thread and got the error message "The field 'multiple' was not recognised."

 

[Second Summer]

tried to start a poll in an existing thread and got the error message "The field 'multiple' was not recognised."

That is strange, I didn't get an error when I did the same to a thread! To which thread did you attempt to add the poll?

 

[Blobbenstein]

That is strange, I didn't get an error when I did the same to a thread! To which thread did you attempt to add the poll?

my Talk Talk one.

 

[Second Summer]

my Talk Talk one.

I just added a poll for it, no problem. (And then deleted it again.) Did you open the thread and click Thread Tools -> Add poll? Or did you go some other route?

 

[Blobbenstein]

Did you open the thread and click Thread Tools -> Add poll?

yes.


I don't want to add a poll now. So I don't mind.

 

[ledboots]

yes.


I don't want to add a poll now. So I don't mind.

Maybe add a poll as to whether you should start a poll or not. [emoji6]

 

[Joe]

Thanks for letting me know, Joe. Will look into it. Issues like this make it increasingly difficult to successfully run an independent Internet forum.

It looks like you have succeeded in clearing this issue up. Thanks!

 

[Joe]

It looks like you have succeeded in clearing this issue up. Thanks!

Ooops! I may have spoken too soon. I am still finding some in my "spam" folder, some in Inbox.

 

[Second Summer]

I have just purchased and installed an add-on which allows us to use multiple thread prefixes for a thread. So e.g. if you're posting a new thread in the Computer Science & Technology forum and the topic relates to both Social Media and Man-Machine Interaction, then just choose both those thread prefixes, and your thread will be using both at the same time.

 

[Second Summer]

Ooops! I may have spoken too soon. I am still finding some in my "spam" folder, some in Inbox.

Ah. I actually hadn't done anything about this yet. I will look into it now ...

 

[Blobbenstein]

you luv your thread prefixes...

 

[Second Summer]

you luv your thread prefixes...

They are the solution to a multitude of forum problems

 

[Second Summer]

Ooops! I may have spoken too soon. I am still finding some in my "spam" folder, some in Inbox.

I've been working on this since last night. Our email server already did SPF and I'm hoping to have DKIM as well soon, once our DNS records are refreshed. Next on the list is DMARC. And before you ask, no, I won't be persuaded to use Google or any other external service to send out our emails!

Edit: GMail now seems to accept our DKIM configuration. Not sure if that will translate into VV emails no longer going into people's spam folders yet.

Edit 2: GMail now seems to accept our DMARC configuration. Might need to tweak it a bit later on.

 

[Second Summer]

If anyone, GMail users or others, find new VV emails in their spam folder, please let me know.

 

[ledboots]

I got one in spam this morning at 7:30AM (so about 12 hours ago). I thought I opted out of VV notifications, and never look at my spam, so I never checked before.
Gmail.

 

[Second Summer]

I've installed an add-on that allows you to rotate attached images.


Edit: Unfortunately, I've had to make this a mod-only feature because the add-on doesn't allow me to configure it so that a user can only rotate their own images. It's either all images or no images.