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I suspect it has something to do with the fact that they're all written in a pretty similar way, and, over time, you'll tend to get a good number of them. Larg
by actually_a_dog 5y ago
I suspect it has something to do with the fact that they're all written in a pretty similar way, and, over time, you'll tend to get a good number of them. Large numbers of similar sounding messages seems like a pretty good spam signal to me.
- gnicholas 5y agoBut why isn't this spam signal overridden by the fact that I just emailed this guy? What are the odds that I happened to email a spammer? I know it seems silly to care so much about OOOs, but I actually do want to know when someone will be back in the office, and whom I should contact in the meantime for urgent matters.
- actually_a_dog 5y agoEverything I've said here, including my initial comment, was just speculation. But, if I had to speculate further, I'd guess it's because spam detectors tend not to be terribly advanced. I wouldn't expect it to consider the temporal signal of "just emailed this guy and immediately got a response back," nor would I expect it to parse the headers and check times. Honestly, you'd probably have to actually talk to somebody at Google who works on or has worked on Gmail in order to get a real answer.
- toast0 5y agoYour outgoing messages are probably not fed into the spam filter.
- gnicholas 5y agoApple's Mail program has a designation of Previous Recipient, which I believe refers to people I have previously sent email to. While spam can certainly come from (or appear to come from) people in my address book, I would think it would be a good idea to whitelist emails that come from a recent recipient, where the subject line matches up as well.