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Nabble Email Link to Individual Forum Users Doesn't Work

Jim Courtney
2376 posts
This post was updated on Apr 30, 2021; 2:58am.
Over the past year I've tried to correspond with several forum members by using the Nabble email link:

Click on my user name, a screen opens with my posts and a link "Send Email to Jim Courtney"---> Click on the link and a screen opens with a title box, and a message box. After swearing you're not a robot, you can "send message".

Every time I've tried using this linkage, I get no response. I'm pretty sure that this place is not inhabited by rude people.

In the past few days Richard Farmer finally reached me via a posted email address, says he's tried reaching me several times using the Nabble links, never got a response. Steve Guty said he didn't get my recent email via Nabble, later found it in his Spam folder.

As an experiment, would everyone send me a short "test" email, to see how many come through.

There are quite a few computer literate IT type guys here. Can this be fixed?? Is it a problem inherent with the Nabble link, or do I have to do something to my email account to receive messages from this site?  

Or maybe I'm just not holding my mouth right, when I hit "send" . . .
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
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Re: Nabble Email Link to Individual Forum Users Doesn't Work

Jim Courtney
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Results so far, as of 13:00 PDT:

I received a test email from Jeff in Ireland. Also just received one from Steve Guty.

The following individuals sent test emails, they ended up in my spam folder:

Todd Hackett
Paul R (in Australia)
Dave Eggleston
Chuck Dressel
Dusty Burman
Charles McMillan
Steve Black

Unless my AOL account has a preference only for the Irish and rebooting, it looks like all past attempts to contact me are ending up in my SPAM folder.  It occurs to me that I've corresponded with Jeff directly with his email account in the past, and just corresponded with Steve in the past 2 days with his. So perhaps my account recognizes Jeff and Steve as contacts, due to prior conversations.

Is it possible that my account recognizes past contacts, but doesn't recognized mail from: "http://c-sng-disscussion-forum.41377.nabble.com", thinks that it is spam advertising?? Weird thing is that the internal address from sender is the email address of the member who sent me the linked message, from a variety of accounts (gmail.com, q.com, hotmail.com, ieee.org, etc.)

How do I fix this folks?

Have others sent me test messages that didn't even make it to my SPAM folder?


Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
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SteveG
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I noted one other artifact--I used the 'CC myself' option when sending a test message, and guess where that wound up? In my spam folder, even though the sender showed as my own account.
That strongly leads me to believe Nabble is doing something at their end to tilt the deck toward spam.
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Re: Nabble Email Link to Individual Forum Users Doesn't Work

Jim Courtney
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My AOL spam folder empties itself every 30 days.

I just went back through 445 messages in my Spam folder. Among emails from Nigerian princes, invitations to "squirting school" and multiple opportunities to acquire male enhancement drugs, I found one other email from this site, from Mike McKenzie, back on March 30th.

I have moved all forum emails that ended up in Spam back to "New Mail".

Would some of you who sent an earlier test email to Spam please send me a "second test" email via the link, to test my theory of prior contacts.

Meanwhile, I'm going to add all of you that ended up in Spam to my Contact list in a few days.

Thanks. Sorry if any of you tried to contact me this way in the past and I never responded . . .
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
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Lee Gustafson
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Jim,

I have tried to contact individuals at their personal emails and Nabble would not send the email. Your experience with Nabble’s failure to send emails is not unique. I hope the issue can be resolved.

Lee Gustafson
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Mike McKenzie
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I sent you an email? On March 30th? Was it spam? I get spam from myself sometimes...

Mike
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Jim Courtney
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Yep, Mike,

On March 30th you wrote:

Hey Jim, I've got a number of shots of 7061 from CRRM, mostly underbody.
Mike McKenzie


Short term memory gets to be hard as we get older.

I'm adding you to my contact list. I will email you my address, tho' I could swear that we've corresponded by email in the past!

After a search, your address is in my contact list, but you sent the email through the Nabble link, dooming you to the SPAM folder!
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
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Mike McKenzie
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Ah yes, I remember it well!

I thought I had your email because we have communicated before, but I guess I didn't check. I do have it though.

Mike
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Jim Courtney
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Well, heck . . . all of the "second test" emails, via Nabble, are still going to my Spam folder.

So what have we learned here?? When one emails a Forum member through the Nabble email link, the majority of the time the email randomly ends up in the recipients Spam folder, even if you've corresponded before.

Unless this can be fixed, I guess I'll need to periodically check my Spam folder for C&Sn3 emails--kind'a defeats the whole purpose of having a Spam folder . . .
Jim Courtney
Poulsbo, WA
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Re: Nabble Email Link to Individual Forum Users Doesn't Work

Jeff Young
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*Some* spam filters are trainable.  If you select a bunch that were sent by Nabble and mark them "not spam" then it will learn not to filter them.

Others have white lists, which might include a domain (so you could whitelist c-sng-discussion-forum.41377.n7.nabble.com).

But there's nothing standardized between them....