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Vlyn@lemmy.world 11 months agoAbsolutely NEVER mark anything from an online email provider you want to keep as spam. They use shared systems, it’s not just spam for you, but potentially for everyone on that email provider. That’s one way to protect people from receiving spam, 100 users marked that same newsletter email as spam? Alright, the newsletter will go to the spam folder for the next 20k users.
If you mark legitimate emails as spam for fun you’re fucking up the system (and give the sender a massive headache if suddenly every @gmail.com receiver puts their emails into the spam folder).
jesterraiin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Set up temporary email account for the purpose of test, write to yourself, mark as spam, check how it works, forget about it.
Done.
Vlyn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Best case: This achieves absolutely nothing.
Worst case: Your ‘temporary’ email account gets banned for spamming (new account, first email sent is marked as spam by receiver). Then your original email account is banned too for ban evasion (same IP, same browser fingerprint, they know it’s you).
Just don’t mess with the spam filters on a server that doesn’t belong to you.
jesterraiin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You shouldn’t be working in IT. If you do, then your salary is wasted.
Vlyn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ah well, I have plenty of uses for my salary. Though I’m a software developer, so that’s more like ITish.
I also run my own mail server with a self-learning spam filter, so I know how easy it is to mess that one up.