Virtuals: sending answers to made up e-mail address > can be required?

[+Tipsy_1]

In some regions more than others, but sometimes you run into virtuals that as a requirement have you send a reply to an e-mail address that is composed of the answer to a question(s). 

 

Is this something that can be truly required? Or is it rather to be considered as something that can be requested as an extra add on. Isn't sending the answer via message center/ "send answers" functionality of the app sufficient?

 

[+Max and 99]

29 minutes ago, Tipsy_1 said:

In some regions more than others, but sometimes you run into virtuals that as a requirement have you send a reply to an e-mail address that is composed of the answer to a question(s). 

 

Is this something that can be truly required? Or is it rather to be considered as something that can be requested as an extra add on. Isn't sending the answer via message center/ "send answers" functionality of the app sufficient?

 

You get to choose. The C.O. does not get to choose for you.

Here is a similar thread:

https://forums.geocaching.com/GC/index.php?/topic/390690-needing-to-use-private-email-to-get-permission-to-log/

 

From the Help Center:

https://www.geocaching.com/help/index.php?pg=kb.chapter&id=107&pgid=688

Edited November 27, 2023 by Max and 99

[+GerandKat]

We need to contradict in this case. 

 

For Virtual Rewards the HQ would like COs to use the internal communication methods (E-Mail or Message Center) but if a CO wants to use a autoresponder, they may use one, and enforce their use.

[+Bear and Ragged]

Send the answers by message center/email, which the CO ignores.

Or send to the auto respond email which gives you a reply "Congratulations, you may fill in your Found It log"

[+Goldenwattle]

2 hours ago, Bear and Ragged said:

Send the answers by message center/email, which the CO ignores.

Or send to the auto respond email which gives you a reply "Congratulations, you may fill in your Found It log"

 You are presuming that the email works. The last three I sent didn't work and no reply. Didn't like my return email address it seems, or my email service didn't like the emails being sent but I got no reply to say that. Emails I sent confirmed correct by the CO through messaging. Blow those emails. In the future I'm messaging.

[+barefootjeff]

1 hour ago, Goldenwattle said:

 You are presuming that the email works. The last three I sent didn't work and no reply. Didn't like my return email address it seems, or my email service didn't like the emails being sent but I got no reply to say that. Emails I sent confirmed correct by the CO through messaging. Blow those emails. In the future I'm messaging.

 

I've only ever done one auto-responder virtual and had the same problem. After trying a few things with the CO, we determined that gmail didn't like emails with just an address but no content, and after writing a short novel for the body, it worked.

 

I also have a separate email account for geocaching set up on the same domain as my regular email but identifying me as "barefootjeff" rather than my real name.

[+JL_HSTRE]

13 hours ago, Bear and Ragged said:

Send the answers by message center/email, which the CO ignores

 

I send my answers then I log my Find. If the CO doesn't like my answers we can try to resolve the discrepancy, and worst case scenario I change my Find to a DNF.

[+Goldenwattle]

30 minutes ago, JL_HSTRE said:

 

I send my answers then I log my Find. If the CO doesn't like my answers we can try to resolve the discrepancy, and worst case scenario I change my Find to a DNF.

Same here.