As a long time hotmail.com account holder, I can tell you that I would
never request a silent-discard option.
If you are able to determine via black-box algorithms that a message is
sufficiently spammy, why not refuse after post-dot?
I'm sure Hotmail deals with spam volumes that are orders of magnitude
bigger than any other system i've ever touched or dealt with, but even
so, whether bounded by law or not, this seems to be amongst the worst
actions a mail platform administrator could take where the end users
probably have not assented to the practice (I sincerely doubt Hotmail
has communicated this approach to its _entire_ customer base).
Mark.
On 9/06/2016 2:08 p.m., Michael Wise via mailop wrote:
At the request of the customer-base, traffic that is classified as sufficiently spammy
(by various "Black Box" algorithms that I have no knowledge of the inner
workings...) is deleted even after a successful delivery.
At one point, Hotmail tried to turn off the delete action for sufficiently
spammy, and just delivered it into Junk; Customers complained. Loudly. So
whether the system is correctly classifying your traffic or not, I cannot say.
But the behavior is not unexpected in certain scenarios. Which one of them
applies to you, I cannot say. Even if I wanted to! But I really have no idea,
and no way to find out.
This "Delete" action is a well-known mitigation that is not unique to Hotmail.
About the only way around it would be to login to your test account, and safe
sender the sending email address.
Among other things, that will force the system to reconsider the verdict that
it has assigned to the IP and the traffic coming from it.
It's possible that the IPs have a left-over bad reputation from a previous
sender, but that's difficult to tell.
Good luck.
Aloha,
Michael.
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