On 11 août 2012, at 20:11, John Stalberg wrote:

> On 11 aug 2012, at 19:07, Andrew Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>> There is another option. Gmail does a terrific job of filtering out spam.
>> 
>> Yes, and pretty much else too. My number one colleague, with whom I exchange 
>> hundreds of mails a year, uses Gmail, and none of my messages get through. 
>> The Gmail pages explaining why would take centuries to read and eons to 
>> implement, so I use one of his secondary addresses, when I remember.
> 
> This is your colleuges inbox and therefore his responsibility to let your 
> email address be flaged as to be put in his inbox. All addresses in the inbox 
> owners address book could or most often even should be allowed to get 
> through. It is often just a matter of setting a preference option for this to 
> happen and nothing complicated.
> 
> Another way to put an 'allowed' rule for your address is to simply allow it 
> when a mail is found and opened. This should be, regardless of if you/he use 
> Goooogles spam filter or Mail.app's filter. It is such a basic rule you going 
> to find it in perhaps every spam filter you can find?
> 
> Remind your colleuge to set this flag.

He's done all that, nothing helps, my messages are not reaching his machine. As 
I said, this is a common enough problem with Google for them to devote many 
pages to the issue. Perhaps Google feels the same way about me that I feel 
about Google, and treats my messages the way I treat theirs.

> In the same way you could benefit from using spam filter? After a period of 
> training the filter it will let good in and mark spam with just a few 
> mistakes.

I use two, Pair's and Mail's, but that does not stop me having to go through 
scores of spam every day to find the occasional genuine message. I am now 
transferring all mail from people not in my address book and not in my previous 
recipients list to a new box and if that contains only a few genuine message 
after a week will then delete all such mail on arrival.

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