I was an earlier adopter of Gmail, and I think it was confirmed properly, but now I see the sticky and wonder. How do I check? Would it say ‘uncomfirmed’ under ‘Edit Email & Password’ in the User CP?
If you don’t recieve the email and activate it, then you are locked out of your account. I went through this just this morning, actually. Since you can post, your email must have been accepted.
OK, thanks!
Actually, I just realized this afternoon, that you can get email sent from the SDMB if you click the “SPAM” link on the left side of the screen. The SDMB email should be filtered and saved there, and you can open it and get the confirmation link.
Where is this “SPAM” link you are referring to? Not seeing it.
On the left side, you should see a list that looks like so:
Inbox
Starred
Sent Mail
All Mail
Spam
Trash
And upon changing my address to gmail, this is indeed what happens. I marked the message “Not spam,” so I’m hoping that will cause further messages from the SDMB to go to my Inbox rather than the Spam folder.
I thought you guys were talking about a SPAM link on the SDMB, not GMAIL. Never mind…
Yeah, I guess that might have been a little confusing.
I have good news, though! I subscribed to this thread as a test, and the notification went to my Inbox.
Yeah, I should do that as a test as well. So I did, and here’s the post that should end up at my gmail account.
I didn’t get an email, not even in my SPAM folder. I suspect it’s because the only post made after subscribing was the one I made.
Could somebody else make a post so I see where it goes? Thanks.
No problem.
Thanks rowrrbazzle, it worked (although it went to the SPAM folder).
As was pointed out by Geobabe in post #7 of this thread . . . if you mark the message “Not Spam,” further messages from the SDMB should go to your Inbox rather than the Spam folder.
Well, that was just her “hope”. I’ve yet to see it specifically written that that action places the sender on a whitelist. One would hope that’s the way it works, though.
Ahem:
Yes, I saw that. But we don’t know for sure that was a result of marking the first message, it could have been from an adjustment to the global spam filter unrelated to the marking.
It probably was a result of the marking, and there likely is a whitelist associated with your account that now has the SDMB, but one can’t know for sure.
Seeing as how the change on my account hapened in a matter of a couple hours, and others have had their notifications go to their Spam folders since then, I’m inclined to think that it’s a whitelist.