Sending activation codes via live.com causes issues. #191

BoilingOil commented 2020年06月13日 08:12:44 +02:00

Ok, I wanted to open an issue on one of the projects hosted here, so I needed an account.
Everything set up, and I'm asked to activate by clicking a link in an email I'm about to receive. So far, so good.
I go to my gmail account, nothing... (I have gmail.com as my main account, but for all my registrations, I use a live.com account, which I've configured my gamil reader to process.)
So I log into live.com, and there it is, mail from codeberg in the spam box!
I click "Not Spam" and it moves to my inbox.

I go to the inbox and click the link... and was sent to some "Bad Request" page on outlook.live.com itself. Apparently, your activation codes are toxic when clicked in Firefox on a live.com page.

Today, I tried again, but the code had expired. So I asked for a new one. Again, it ends up being called spam. Again I tapped "Not Spam" and clicked the link... again, same problem.
Now I waited for the mail to be sent thru to gmail, and clicked it there. Seeing as how I'm writing this, THAT apparently worked.

But maybe you could still look into that "Bad Request" thing at live.com, because something there might keep some people out of here, if they're not as persistent nasty buggers as I am.

Ok, I wanted to open an issue on one of the projects hosted here, so I needed an account. Everything set up, and I'm asked to activate by clicking a link in an email I'm about to receive. So far, so good. I go to my gmail account, nothing... (I have gmail.com as my main account, but for all my registrations, I use a live.com account, which I've configured my gamil reader to process.) So I log into live.com, and there it is, mail from codeberg in the spam box! I click "Not Spam" and it moves to my inbox. I go to the inbox and click the link... and was sent to some "Bad Request" page on outlook.live.com itself. Apparently, your activation codes are toxic when clicked in Firefox on a live.com page. Today, I tried again, but the code had expired. So I asked for a new one. Again, it ends up being called spam. Again I tapped "Not Spam" and clicked the link... again, same problem. Now I waited for the mail to be sent thru to gmail, and clicked it there. Seeing as how I'm writing this, THAT apparently worked. But maybe you could still look into that "Bad Request" thing at live.com, because something there might keep some people out of here, if they're not as persistent nasty buggers as I am.

BoilingOil commented 2020年06月13日 16:58:52 +02:00

I mean, if nothing could be done about the above code-wise, it might be an idea to detect when people are trying to use a MocriSoft/Outlook based address, and then encourage them to change it, INCLUDING a warning that completing the registration following a link from those accounts will be al but impossible.

I mean, if nothing could be done about the above code-wise, it might be an idea to detect when people are trying to use a MocriSoft/Outlook based address, and then encourage them to change it, INCLUDING a warning that completing the registration following a link from those accounts will be al but impossible.

6543 commented 2020年11月19日 18:40:27 +01:00

could be related to #298

could be related to #298

hw commented 2020年11月19日 21:26:49 +01:00

This is definitely not intentional, solving the issue that activation mails are marked as spam would be important here.

This is definitely not intentional, solving the issue that activation mails are marked as spam would be important here.

BoilingOil commented 2020年11月20日 03:36:46 +01:00

This is definitely not intentional, solving the issue that activation mails are marked as spam would be important here.

Of course this is not intentional. I would never imply, or even just imagine, that it was. Because what would be the purpose of doing such a thing intentionally? Besides, I was not the one who first made the link between #298 and this issue. I only responded to someone else doing that. In fact, I'm the one who questions that link...

> This is definitely not intentional, solving the issue that activation mails are marked as spam would be important here. Of course this is not intentional. I would never imply, or even just imagine, that it was. Because what would be the purpose of doing such a thing intentionally? Besides, *I* was not the one who first made the link between #298 and this issue. I only responded to someone else doing that. In fact, I'm the one who *questions* that link...

6543 commented 2020年11月20日 04:52:57 +01:00

I'm sorry if any of you got this wrong - i just thought the live.com issue could be caused by some temporary bad reputation due to spam atacs.

I'm sorry if any of you got this wrong - i just thought the live.com issue could be caused by some temporary bad reputation due to spam atacs.

hw commented 2020年11月20日 10:07:14 +01:00

I had the same understanding like you

I had the same understanding like you

fnetX commented 2021年04月07日 23:32:36 +02:00

Monitoring spam reputation is some permanent and repeated job, I think we do not need to keep an issue to track this. We are having an eye on this of course.

Monitoring spam reputation is some permanent and repeated job, I think we do not need to keep an issue to track this. We are having an eye on this of course.