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Messages get seen as SPAM - john.prentice - 13 Aug 2022
Email goes back to the very early days if the development of the Internet (ARPANet) and one of the problems not then forseen was the trouble unwanted emails could cause (spam) once email became the standard mode of much modern communication.
As a result of this various ad hoc techniques are used by internet service providers to try to filter out spam. Unfortunately many of these are overly suspicious of email that comes from bulletin boards or from IP addresses which are shared by many users - some of whom may indeed be generators of spam.
Messages from or via this board are much more likely to be marked as spam than your everyday emails. Thus you should whitelist the email used by the forum. If you are using Microsoft Outlook the searching Help for "whitelist" will show you how to trust addresses in your Contacts. Then put bestcar@castlewoodconsultants.com in your Contacts.
Sadly even this does not always let you see everything sent to you. For example the mail service on btinternet.com filters some stuff and never even sends it to your computer mail client. You will be able to see these messages in some sort of spam folder by using the webmail client for your service provider rather than a desktop client like Outlook or Thunderbird.
A very common difficulty is if you forget your password and use the Forgotten password link on the login screen then the forum sends you an email with a link to reset the password. These often are falsely marked as spam.