Thanks Russ, The curious thing is that it was an Outlook message whereas the receiving email handler is gmail. I would guess, therefore, that the problem is occurring at the Fermilab end.
My gmail account seems to collect all spam coming its way - I check it about once a week and mark wanted messages appropriately. To be honest, judging by my own "drafts" mailbox, I suspect that my phantom messages have never been sent. It's way too easy to get distracted :-) Regards Paul On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 18:27, R P Herrold <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Paul Richard Thomas wrote: > > > Could somebody explain why this is happening to those not versed in > > these problems with office365 ? > > Every receiver of email decides the policies under which it > will accept it, or indeed, whether it will accept an offered > piece at all. Anti-spam defense systems are the most common > reason offered > > The owners of the Office 365 product, and those of Gmail have > (probably) decided that the content from the list 'looks > spammy' ... their choice, and that decision is applied on > behalf of their subscribers. Also, to avoid 'educating' > senders of unsolicited email how to evade such restrictions, > the criteria shift without notice and may get tighter or > looser, depending on the whim of the email receiver that day > > > The alternative approach is for a email receiver is to simply > 'mark' such as with a spam-assassin score, their opinion as to > how 'spammy' something is, and permit the mail user client to > decide what to do with it > > I run under that latter system, and I see this as to your > question piece: > > Return-Path: <[email protected]> > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2-r929478 > (2010-03-31) on (elided) > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00, > DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, > DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM, > T_DKIM_INVALID autolearn=no version=3.3.2-r929478 > > > The theory is that an unhappy subscriber will complain, or go > elsewhere > > These questions should properly be directed to your email > handling firm (here: Microsoft or Google) > > -- Russ herrold -- "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" - Albert Einstein
