[OT] Be Advised ... New Microsoft Outlook Email Spam-Filter False-Positives Bug!

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[OT] Be Advised ... New Microsoft Outlook Email Spam-Filter False-Positives Bug!

Gary W. Hvizdak
This past week I emailed someone (Bob in Germany) but he didn't reply so a
few days later I emailed him again.  Upon replying to my second email, Bob
indicated that he never received my first email!

Fast-forward to this evening, while tweaking my next (700 Hz filter)
Reflector post, I sent it to myself on a whim, only to find that it was
misidentified as spam.  Eventually I was able to determine that the culprit
was my callsign on the signature line!

I've already reported this issue to Microsoft, and as luck would have it, I
had previously written the necessary "regular expression" code (see below)
to identify any valid amateur radio callsign, so I provided that as well.
Even though my code should save them many hours of research, coding, and
testing; there's still no telling when or even if this recently introduced
bug will be corrected!

I mention this because it's unlikely mine is the only amateur radio callsign
being misidentified by Microsoft Outlook's spam filter!

73,
Gary Hvizdak
(callsign omitted so that this message isn't mistakenly flagged as spam by
Microsoft Outlook)

--- - - - ---

My regular expression code to identify any amateur radio callsign (hopefully
it won't cause a false-positive) ...

   $us_1x23_2x123  =
"((^[KNW][0-9][A-Z]{2,3}$)|(^((A[A-L])|([KNW][A-Z]))[0-9][A-Z]{1,3}$))";

   $dx_12x23       =
"(^(([ACDLPST][2-9])|([E][2-4])|([H][2-46-9])|([JV][2-8])|([Z][2-3])|([2-9][
A-Z])|([A][M-Z])|([B-JLMO-VXYZ][A-Z]?))[0-9][A-Z]{2,3}$)";

   $dx_23x12       =
"(^(([ACDLPST][2-9][A-Z])|([E][2-4][A-Z])|([H][2-46-9][A-Z])|([JV][2-8][A-Z]
)|([Z][2-3][A-Z])|([2-9][A-Z]{2})|([A][M-Z][A-Z]?)|([B-JLMO-VXYZ][A-Z]{1,2})
)[0-9][A-Z]{1,2}$)";

   $any_call_regex = "~" . $us_1x23_2x123 . "|" . $dx_12x23 . "|" .
$dx_23x12 . "~";


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Re: [OT] Be Advised ... New Microsoft Outlook Email Spam-Filter False-Positives Bug!

Bill-3
Please let the group know when this problem is corrected - thanks.

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Re: [OT] Be Advised ... New Microsoft Outlook EmailSpam-Filter False-Positives Bug!

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In reply to this post by Gary W. Hvizdak
FYI,
This new process by MS is rejecting nearly all my emails to/from this email
list.
I don’t even get my own posts back.
I added my Gmail account to the Elecraft list and I am getting all the list
emails there.
This has been going on for over a week now.
I am a member of several other lists and that mail comes through fine.
I contacted Keith at Elecraft, he said to contact QTH.net, they said MS was
rejecting their emails and they had contacted MS.  My email that is getting
rejected is  wm3m at live dot com
Emory  WM3M

-----Original Message-----
From: Gary W. Hvizdak
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:40 AM
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Subject: [Elecraft] [OT] Be Advised ... New Microsoft Outlook
EmailSpam-Filter False-Positives Bug!

This past week I emailed someone (Bob in Germany) but he didn't reply so a
few days later I emailed him again.  Upon replying to my second email, Bob
indicated that he never received my first email!

Fast-

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Tom Armour-2
I am in the same boat.

I added my gmail account since my wa4ta at hotmail account is not receiving
mail from QTH.net

I opened a ticket with Microsoft over a week ago.  I have received a few
messages from the list since then but not many.

Tom


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:48 AM, <[hidden email]> wrote:

> FYI,
> This new process by MS is rejecting nearly all my emails to/from this
> email list.
> I don't even get my own posts back.
> I added my Gmail account to the Elecraft list and I am getting all the
> list emails there.
> This has been going on for over a week now.
> I am a member of several other lists and that mail comes through fine.
> I contacted Keith at Elecraft, he said to contact QTH.net, they said MS
> was rejecting their emails and they had contacted MS.  My email that is
> getting rejected is  wm3m at live dot com
> Emory  WM3M
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Gary W. Hvizdak
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 1:40 AM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: [Elecraft] [OT] Be Advised ... New Microsoft Outlook
> EmailSpam-Filter False-Positives Bug!
>
> This past week I emailed someone (Bob in Germany) but he didn't reply so a
> few days later I emailed him again.  Upon replying to my second email, Bob
> indicated that he never received my first email!
>
> Fast-
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