Hello fellow email-enthusiasts, all this discussion about emails being marked as spam or not and why always makes me think about one thing:
Do we even need Junk/Spam-Folders? I mean how much mail gets through the first "block directly" level on your site? Every now and then a wave comes through and results in a bad mail or two more, but can't people handle 3 or 5 spams in their inbox per day? Depending on your client you might even just mark or group them in the Inbox, so people can take a quick glance and delete them if they want to. Is it necessary to sort these and lots of false positives into an extra folder that people regularly have to look into anyway so they don't miss an important mail? And where you regularly have to remind them to do so? As a sender I am a little annoyed when someone blocks my mails during delivery, but at least I know about it and can look into it or contact the recipient in a different way. I feel that's a lot better than not knowing if an email just vanished (not calling names this time...), is being ignored or just not seen because some obscure AI thought the recipient might want to be saved from it and he doesn't even know about it? Even more interesting: In Germany, this can be seen as not delivering an email to the recipient which is against the law. The user might be using POP3 or is not subscribed to the IMAP folder and therefore does not see the SPAM folder at all. To him the email never existed in the first place - even worse if it gets deleted automatically after a few days. I am not a lawyer and wouldn't know how to translate the legal text into English, but basically the law states that as soon as you accept a letter to be transported, you have to forward it to the recipient. The only way to avoid that responsibility is to not accept the letter in the first place. Me using the word "letter" in this is a hint on what times the law is based on, but it counts for email nonetheless. This might be a dark grey area and I don't have the resources to fight something like this in court to have it clarified, but it is something us postmasters here have to consider. Perhaps you should too? Regards from Germany, Thomas Walter -- Thomas Walter Datenverarbeitungszentrale FH Münster - University of Applied Sciences - Corrensstr. 25, Raum B 112 48149 Münster Tel: +49 251 83 64 908 Fax: +49 251 83 64 910 www.fh-muenster.de/dvz/ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
