"C A Upsdell" <""cupsdell\"@nospam@upsdell.com"> wrote in message
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> Walt G wrote:
>> Sorry to appear ignorant, but is spam only an issue for POP3 email
>> clients and not for web-based email such as Gmail?
>
> Yes, it is also an issue with web-based email: but the web-based service
> will likely have different spam filters, perhaps better, perhaps worse,
> than you have for your POP3 account.
Spam filters are a two-edged sword; the tighter they get, the more
legitimate mail will be rejected. Unfortunately, you may have no way of
knowing what the server rejected.
I regularly send a group email to containing a document to users who expect,
want, and need the email to conduct their business. However, because of
the way I have to send it - there's an attachment, it's addressed to me,
with all recipients blind copied - many corporate spam filters initially
block it and may automatically blacklist my email address. The server
thinks it's spam, because it follows a usual spam mail format.
The only way either of us know that there is a problem is that they didn't
recieve it when they expected it (and knew I'd sent it) and they complain to
me. They ultimately have to contact their IT departments to get my email
address whitelisted.
HTH
-pk