Yes, but how did the user know Legacy was blocked as spam? I thought it was sent to a spam folder and was marked as spam. If not the user should tell the provider legacy is in his contact list so the provider can unblock Legacy. But I might be wrong. Evert
2010/2/9 Brian L. Lightfoot <[email protected]>: > Mike is correct. Almost all service providers give each customer the option > to turn on or off email filtering by the ISP. My point is not to argue which > is the best method but I have my ISP filters turned OFF and I use my client > program's own filters. Yes, it means I receive a lot of spam but I don't have > to open and read any of it that goes into the junk mail box and with the > press of one key, it is easily deleted. Other people don't trust their own > filters or else don't know how to turn them on so they just let the ISP do it > for them. > > Most ISPs will hold all the mail that they declared spam for about 30 days in > their own junk mail box. Using a Web browser, you can usually open up this > junk mail box at the ISP to make sure nothing good is getting in there by > mistake. Now whether they offer you the chance to declare something to be not > junk for all future mail received is another matter. This is something that > your email program can easily do if you turn off the ISP filters. > > Brian in CA > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mike Fry [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 8:03 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] test >> >> On 2010/02/09 17:58, Evert van Dijken wrote: >> >> > It shouldn't be marked spam if Legacy is in your contact list. >> >> Why not? The ISP gets the mail before you do. If they decide it's Spam, >> then you might not get to see it. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Mike Fry >> Johannesburg >> > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
