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> Although I don't check my spam folder for false positives, so who knows? I've started doing this occasionally, and while false positives are rare, they do ha
by mjn 13y ago
> Although I don't check my spam folder for false positives, so who knows?
I've started doing this occasionally, and while false positives are rare, they do happen and are sometimes pretty important! It's useful that it tells you why mail is in the folder, though sometimes the explanations are more informative than others. One funny one was that it trashed a mail because it contained Danish text, a language it says I don't correspond in. I do indeed not correspond in Danish, but I do live in Denmark, so getting Danish email isn't so surprising, and usually is actually important (e.g. from the tax authority). That one was interesting in that it seems to indicate they don't tune the spam filter using all the personal profile data they have (Gmail certainly knows I log in from a Danish IP).
- thaumasiotes 13y ago> That one was interesting in that it seems to indicate they don't tune the spam filter using all the personal profile data they have Yeah, this is infuriating. I had gmail silently spam-filter an email on the grounds that it came from an @qq.com address (QQ is a large chinese social network). While I had never corresponded with that particular QQ address, I had correspondence from several other QQ addresses in my inbox. Also in my inbox: correspondence with an @foxmail.com address displaying the same sender name as the mail that was supposedly spam. I don't see how it could have been more clear, contextually, that I wanted to receive that mail.
- skj 13y agoEmail from Google recruiters went to my gmail spam. I had to whitelist @google.com, which I thought was pretty silly. I know it's a popular domain to spoof, but you'd think that at least with @google.com they could do a quick validation step!