BEWARE! If You Don't Receive Reply Emails From This Forum

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BEWARE! With ISP's providing better spam protection on your personal computers it will be necessary to enter the web sites "From" address onto your computers address book with these forum addresses ([e-mail]) and ([e-mail]) so your Internet Service Provider (ISP) doesn't tag the reply emails as spam. It would also be recommended that you add both of these email "From" addresses to your "Gmail, Outlook or other web based email provider especially if you have the emails forwarded".

What happens is this forum sends out the reply email and your ISP will block it, "As Spam" because the host server is sending out thousands of emails from the web sites the server hosts. You may not get any messages about the email from this forum being blocked and in most cases you won't get any email about any messages being blocked. Email addresses that are in your computers address book will not get blocked.  and will go through even though your ISP marks them as spam. Cox, Comcast and various other ISP's tag a lot of emails especially forum emails as spam and this forum is hosted by an entity that has it's post reply emails tagged as spam even though the emails are not spam and contain no harmful viruses or Trojans. This kind of spam blocking will become even greater over the next several years and I like not getting all the ads and B.S. in my inbox but myself and millions of others don't get a lot of forum and web site reply emails because of this spam blocking. I entered this servers "noreply" emails into my address book and now it allows the two "From" email addresses to get through and the reply emails go fast into my inbox now.

If you use an email address like gmail, live.com, mail.com or any other email host the reply emails from this forum most likely will not be blocked but emails won't get forwarded to the inbox your ISP provides for you on your computer. In most cases with the email hosts you will get a "Delivery Status" message telling you the message could not be forwarded to your personal ISP if you have forwarding turned on or the email will be put in your junk folder. If you are not getting the reply emails from this forum in your hosted email inbox then your hosted email account is blocking them also and you will have to go through the settings to allow the emails from [e-mail] to be allowed. Most email sites like Google, Yahoo, Outlook and Mail.com will not block emails from this forum, "They Just Can't Forward Them Because Your ISP Has Tagged Them As Spam".

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Today 9-6-2013 I just started to receive my forum emails in my personal inbox. The emails being sent out through the server with this address [e-mail] are being blocked by ISP's. All my reply emails were being completely blocked by the ISP's from Proboards. I found out the ISP's aren't doing just me, "They are doing whole web hosts like Proboards" and other small web businesses.

What I had to do to get the emails to show up into my personal inbox is one of two different things (If you do both you will get two of the same emails):

1. Create a filter that lets [e-mail] come in.
2. Place the address [e-mail] in my address book or contact list.
3. You can create a wildcard in your email filter also " *@proboards.com* " (Wild card have the asterisks at each end)

I already did these two steps on my personal computer. but since I do use MSN Bing Outlook for another web hosting service I use and I had to do the two steps on Outlook before the emails would be forwarded to my ISP. The web email services will block the emails and toss them into the junk file even if they are perfectly fine. The new MSN Outlook email service is blocking all emails that are mass sent. This is the new future of the internet. I'm alright on my Proboards forum now but my members and future members aren't if they don't create an email filter to allow for replies and add [e-mail] to their address books. Sending out mass emails triggers the ISP blocks so posting public messages is the way to go.

For those that are unaware of email filters here's an example and you will find some sort of email filter in your email functions.

For those who are unaware what the address or contact area infomation is below is an example you will find somewhere in your email functions.

On Proboards I did the two steps and created a filter and added the noreply@proboards into my address book and can go to any Proboards forum and get reply emails as soon as thread replies are posted. Of coarse before reply emails are sent out threads you wish to get replies from have to be manually bookmarked. When you post on a thread there are no automatic bookmarkings. You have to go to the "Actions" box next to the search box at the top of the thread and manually bookmark to thread.

Alot of web sites and hosting sites get their customer emails blocked and never know it's happening. This is an effort to stop spam and I like having no spam show up on my computer but this should have been released to the public and not snuck in to the internet system. People have to start using their email filters and address books more because if a web sites mass emails are blocked as spam all their individual emails get blocked as spam also.

Of coarse Facebook, Twitter and other big time social web sites may get a waiver but I haven't tested them yet. They have always been in my address book. What I found out is some of the blocked sites I use regularly were getting blocked and not only did I have to put the "From" email address in my address book but I also had to create a filter to allow the emails through the ISP blocks. ??