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Email Notifications False Positive Phishing in GMail

Discussion in 'Empty Closets Help and Feedback' started by Pret Allez, Jan 4, 2013.

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  1. Pret Allez

    Pret Allez
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    Hey, there:

    If the technical folks on the Empty Closets staff are not already aware, GMail seems to think that the automatic notifications for private messages are not coming from Empty Closets. I checked my inbox, and two legitimate notifications were marked as phishing attempts:

    "This message may not have been sent by: [email protected]"
     
    #1 Pret Allez, Jan 4, 2013
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    I know that my Gmail account sees any email that is automated as a phishing scam. It's kind of annoying. (Some of my university emails get put into the phishing category..)
     
    #2 BradThePug, Jan 4, 2013
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    We've had all sorts of issues with automated notifications. Ideally, they should be coming from EC's mail server but we've had some issue with that for a while... so the alternative has been using this Gmail account... which creates a different set of problems.

    With practically every other provider on the planet, you can whitelist an email address. I seem to remember that Gmail did not allow this (as they took the "We know what's junk mail" approach) but they may have changed on that issue. You might check and see if you can whitelist that email address.
     
    #3 Chip, Jan 5, 2013
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