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I don’t know when this stopped, probably in the last couple of weeks. I only noticed it earlier this week when I started a thread about fixing a dummy engine. I’ve received no emails for replies to the topic.  I haven’t received emails for regular threads I’m following as well.  I checked and double checked my OGR profile and can’t see anything that would block emails. My email hasn’t changed. My email reader is Outlook 2021 running on a Win11 laptop, so that’s pretty solid. I’ve checked my junk mail as well. I’m a 40+ year computer programmer, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t overlook something. I’ve checked the forum for this issue and tried all the suggestions for previously reported problems.  Perhaps my ISP changed their spam settings?

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I use "sbcglobal.net" (an old AT&T subsidiary) as my main e-mail address and have not seen this problem.  However, I have seen similar problems discussed before here and on other fora.  As far as I can tell, in most cases, the ISP has blocked (from all recipients) the e-mails you expect to receive because they believe it to be spam (generally an algorithm determination) or some other form of nefarious e-mail.  Having followed these stories closely, it seems that sometimes a call to the ISP solves one person's problem, and sometimes just putting the sender's e-mail address into your contacts solves the problem.  However, most often, the user with the problem has to set up a "new" e-mail address AND put the sender's e-mail address into contacts to solve the problem.

And believe me when I say that there is nothing the sender can do to solve the problem.  I hope you manage to get it resolved for yourself.

Chuck

I created a new email address on a non-AT&T domain, modified my OGR profile to point to it for email notifications, and just received a bunch.  This was on my Outlook 2019 email reader on my Win 11 laptop, exactly the same system as the failed AT&T emails.  While the likely culprit is a change in AT&T's spam filtering, it's possible that something in the emails coming from OGR changed such that they activated the spam rejection.  Like I said, getting with AT&T is impossible unless you want to spend an hour on hold, and even then there's a good chance of being disconnected.

I thought this might be the case.

This domain sends hundreds, maybe thousands of emails every day, to members like you and hundreds of others who have set up email alerts. Some of the spam detectives see all that email activity, assume it has to be spam, and puts the domain on a spam blacklist, even though nothing sent from here is spam. This is the result.

I’m glad you got it fixed.

@CR Cole posted:

I changed to my Gmail Account and everything is working now. Go figure.

It’s easy to figure.

AT&T changed their spam settings. They, and every other email provider, are constantly changing their spam setting settings. For now they’ve decided that “alerts@crowdstack.com” is a spam site. In a few days/weeks, they will change it again and then your sbcglobal address will work.

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