So I finally got around to changing my password for these forums after the recent unpleasantness. But I was having trouble receiving the email. I logged into the spam filter, which let it pass with a score of 1 (it takes a score of like 90 or higher to get caught). I looked at the server logs and saw the email message hit my email account. And then it vanished. It didn't show up in my inbox at all. No other spam filters were in place and I checked the spam folder, nothing there. So I tried again, same result. I could see that it was arriving, but without seeing the message itself, I couldn't read it since the spam filter doesn't store the bodies of messages that pass through, only ones that get blocked.

So I got clever.

I added gamesas.com to the block list, triggered the password reset email a third time, and as expected, the email got caught in the filter this time. With the body intact and accessible. I copied the link and pasted it into my browser to generate the second email in the process, which also got caught in the spam filter. Once I had access to my account back, I changed the email address and then finally changed my password to the new, permanent one I selected. I then took gamesas.com out of the block list. I still don't know where the email ended up, and if I wasn't the server administrator for my email address, I wouldn't have even known that it made it to the server and simply vanished.

I think it's funny and a bit backwards that I had to blacklist gamesas.com instead of whitelist it, in order to get email from them! lol

Also I got this new program (and a matching Android app for my phone) called KeePass to help me manage my passwords. That's the main reason I finally got around to changing this password in the first place.

Sounds like you should let Gstaff know

Nah, it has nothing to do with gamesas's servers, just the one I run. Once I switched my email address for my forum account to my Gmail account, the emails came through just fine. It's a problem I need to figure out on my own.

Oh I see what you mean. Still strange though

My password reset went off without a hitch. :shrug:

Also, KeePass is an awesome program. I've been using it for quite a while now.
Not because I'm paranoid or anything, but because it's just so darned convenient.

Yea, it definitely had me scratching my head. Still does. Only thing I can think is that there's another level of spam filtering going on and it's running afoul of that somehow. But I checked the only other spam filter I know of, the SpamAssassin built in to the mail server software, and it's not running.

ASSP, MailScanner, or SpamBayes?

Anyway, just another reason why I'll never host my own email (plus, since so many mail services don't protect against telnet, I have plenty of options still for my mail address spoofing needs )