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usonian

(9,763 posts)
Wed Sep 28, 2022, 10:19 PM Sep 2022

Gmail users. Check your spam folder.

A Hacker News user posts:
Gmail sends IRS and FBI emails to spam
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33014491

My company email is copied to Gmail. Over the years, their spam filter has gone berserk. It started from PayPal emails a couple of years ago. Last year, critical PPP loan documents ended up in Spam folder. But recently, we found several .gov emails there, including irs.gov emails and even several emails from @fbi.gov, containing legal documents! You'd think they could at the minimum whitelist all genuine US government emails? Pressing No Spam button doesn't seem to do anything for the future emails, we ended up creating "Never send to Spam" filter for from:.gov !


All those geniuses ....


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Gmail users. Check your spam folder. (Original Post) usonian Sep 2022 OP
Not surprised. ManiacJoe Oct 2022 #1

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
1. Not surprised.
Fri Oct 7, 2022, 03:23 AM
Oct 2022

Most email filters wrongly look at the content of the emails when they should be looking at the origins of the emails. Unfortunately, IP black lists are not politically correct while they work lots of technical goodness.

The "from" fields in emails are useless since they are easily forged and, being a freeform field, don't even need to contain something resembling an email address.

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