On 2024-04-07 at 21:40:40 UTC-0400 (Sun, 7 Apr 2024 20:40:40 -0500)
Jerry Malcolm <techst...@malcolms.com>
is rumored to have said:
But I have a co-worker that is convinced that "donotre...@xyz.com" is
a trigger for gmail's spam filters and all spam filters will score the
email higher as spam due simply to that word in the email address.
1. "All spam filters" isn't a useful phrase. Nothing is true of all spam
filters.
2. Google's filters are, beyond their documented rules, entirely opaque.
Anyone who claims to know anything about how they work internally is not
to be trusted. I seem to recall someone who maintains GMail filtering
(Brandon Long) saying as much in the MailOps list.
3. I just sent myself a message from donotre...@billmail.scconsult.com
(a never-before-seen bogus address) via my personal mail server to one
of my GMail accounts and it delivered into the Inbox. So your cow-orker
is simply wrong.
Obviously, you need to follow all of Google's well-publicized
recommendations for volume senders if you want to stand any chance of
getting messages into INBOX instead of Spam. Other tricks that *SEEM TO
ME* to help is to send simple text messages instead of complex
multipart/alternative messages with HTML or (WORSE) pure HMTL. Modern
MUAs recognize URLs in plaintext and for basic confirmations like this,
you should keep the message as simple, clear, and unadorned as possible.
--
Bill Cole
b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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