Jeff Needle wrote:
>> wrote:
>>> Hello is it possible that there is a gmail blacklist.
> My experience has been similar, but on the receiving end. I look at
> my spam box in gmail every day, and every so often find that it
> contains a legitimate e-mail.
This addresses a very large issue with spamfiltering methods, the losing
of goodmail, so-called 'ham'.
Not very many people like to 'dumpster-dive' which is what I call
digging thru' tons and tons and tons of spam to possibly or possibly not
find the occasional or rare goodmail. It is far more likely that the
goodmail false-positively id/ed as spam will be lost, by the recipient
or by the provider.
In fact, so few people like to dumpsterdive that it is common for many
providers to not even provide access to the id/ed spam, but to
automatically delete it.
The way my provider EL handles known spam is to accept it rather than
reject it [that is, EL rejects some mail, but mostly accepts spam] and
then to 'divert' what the EL filter recognizes as spam into the Spam
folder instead of the Inbox. This is the default 'medium' spamblock
configuration. The medium spamblock default configuration is to delete
the content of the Spam folder sight unseen to the client, unless the
client reconfigures the spamblocker to save it to a certain quantity of
items.
Mail which is rejected isn't lost, but just 'slightly' problematic. The
sender whose mail is rejected has to work around the problem; whereas
the ham which is 'dropped on the floor' or deleted unknown doesn't even
know the mail has gone missing.
I have more than one EL mail account and the accounts are configured
differently from each other, none with the EL default settings, and I
don't use spamblocker medium at all.
In the case of gmail, gmail default saves the spam, but I suspect that
few gmail users actually inspect their spam folder, so then the
recipient 'loses' the mail rather than gmail losing the mail.
> If I mark it "not spam," gmail
> remembers this and passes the mail through each time after that.
Gmail autoenters the sender into the contacts which are whitelisted.
--
Mike Easter
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