On Fri, 16 Dec 2016 20:55:32 +0000 Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The fact that some people do not know > enough to use Spam folders differently from deleted mail is not a > reason why the rest of us should have our email dropped. > The reason why your mail gets dropped is that it cannot accurately be identified as not-spam, as I'm sure you know. If it really is spam, then the Reply-To header is forged, and the last thing that should be done is to send the message 'back', *quoting* *it* *in* *full*, to a third party who had nothing to do with it, and who has now been sent spam from a presumably legitimate mail server. The problem is not to do with the silent dropping of spam, which is the correct behaviour for a mail server which has been foolish enough to accept it in the first place, but to identify it with 100% accuracy and thereby to prevent the dropping of genuine email. Solve that and you can name your price... The next best thing is to identify spam at the SMTP transmission stage and to refuse it, which *does* tell the sender of mis-identified legitimate email that it has not been delivered. -- Joe
