[PLUG] Tracing mail sent via postfix

[Larry Brigman]

I use Gmail.  I need to examine my spam folder at least once a month to
prevent my subscribed mailing lists from getting trashed.  Typically, it
takes three or four times to prevent Gmail from putting the list in spam.

On Jun 21, 2017 11:08 AM, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jun 2017, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>
> > It depends on three things:
> > * whether you relay outbound mail through a smart host,
> > * the setup of the mail server on the far end,
> > * the user's junk/spam settings.
> >
> > If you use a smart host (e.g., your ISP's SMTP server) to relay your
> outbound
> > mail, then you're at your ISP's mercy to know about delivery status.
> Maybe
> > the mail admins will return bounces or otherwise notify you of them,
> maybe
> > not. (There are, btw, good reasons not to.)
>
> Paul,
>
>    Outbound mail does go through spiritone and they do return bounces ...
> at
> least, the ones I receive.
>
> > A well-run mail server should reject spam during the SMTP transaction
> > itself, and not after it's accepted delivery. If you send mail to
> > madboa.com that gets marked as spam, for instance, you'll get a bounce
> > message very quickly (and I'll never see the message).
>
>    One intended recipient uses gmail.
>
> > Finally, the remote user may have trained their spam filter aggressively
> > -- and she may never take the time to check their junk folder.
>
>    Heh! Perhaps. But, these folks are not sophisticated computer users.
> While
> they might set filters for gmail, hotmail, msn, yahoo, and so on I suspect
> that most don't. They might not be aware that they could do so.
>
> Thanks for the insights,
>
> Rich
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