You might also want to consider adding the mailing list to your contacts
for Hotmail.  I have found this makes a big difference for Hotmail, even
more than filters do.

Risker/Anne

On Sat, 5 Jun 2021 at 20:16, Platonides <[email protected]> wrote:

> First, I doubt you would get someone to change the hotmail filters. It's
> not like they added a manual rule. It works on autopilot. The spamfilter
> *learns* that such message is bad. Not even the Microsoft guys really
> know how it decides that. And even if the ip address was blocked, the
> technicians would just be allowed to "mitigate" the ip, and are not allowed
> to deviate from the runbook.
>
> Second, the migration to mailman3 probably changed them enough so they
> "lost" a lot of the reputation it gained through the years. So if may have
> learnt that a message with certain wikimedia headers was ok, but mm3 emails
> are different enough they don't hit.
>
> Third, mailman *is* sending spam messages to the list owners. Those are
> requested, but they are being sent, so hotmail does have a point. *Do not
> mark them as spam*, even if it is a spam sent to <list>-
> [email protected], you *want* to receive them, not to make hotmail
> learn that email sent by lists.wikimedia.org is spam.
>
> Mails blocked to the list and sent to the list owners are problematic (and
> spammy) enough that I think mailman should offern an option not to include
> the full email not passed to the list, but only the subject. But that'd be
> a feature request.
> In the end, if you are a list admin, you have requested to receive them,
> even if they are spammy. You should be able to configure your mail for
> that. However, you may be using a provider which doesn't allow that kind of
> flexibility.
>
> By the way, gmail is marking me the previous mails of this list from Leon
> Haanstra as: "This message was not sent to Spam because of a filter you
> created." (they are not always obeying these filters ☹, but I am glad they
> at least allow them). This may be related to gmail considering list mail
> flow more spammy than usual, or simply because it's a yahoo.com email
> address and thus it fails the silly DMARC policy they added.
>
>
> Regards
>
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