13 Nov
2018
13 Nov
'18
5 p.m.
On 13/11/18 09:05, Rob Janssen wrote:
Not being a gmail.com user myself, I do not exactly
know what features
it offers
for whitelisting or other special treatment of mail, or maybe what it
learns
automatically. It could be that sending back and forth several mails
eventually
leads to an address getting on the whitelist automatically. The same
could be
true for mail server IP addresses (like a mailinglist server), and it
could be
that knowledge built in the past also affects the results of new SPAM
criteria
added later.
Gmail has an automated spam filter, which supposedly learns from the
vast body of email that flows through Gmail. It's not bad, but being
somewhat reliant on learning from user reactions and traffic patterns,
it does make a mistake every now and then.
However, the good news is you can override the spam filter by creating a
filter that finds list posts and in the filter set the action "Never
send to Spam", in addition to any other filtering actions you'd like to
take. That is your whitelist.
It is all a bit opaque, and when you want reliable and predictable
mail service,
using those mailservices certainly is not the best choice... or at
the least
check the SPAM folder regularly. (but I have also received reports of
mail
being dropped and not placed there)
That I haven't seen with Gmail, but it is very common with Hotmail.
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