Ken, the flaw in your recommendation is that you're asking the sender to change how they do X because the receiver is applying filtering that they really shouldn't be applying. It doesn't fit the "be liberal in what you accept" best practice.
Those of us that have used various edge spam filtering devices or services, they did often have rules where you could exempt some addresses from the filtering. As it essentially needs to be for spam reporting, else you're going to miss some reports. Because even if you tell everybody to zip them up, not everybody will. (Also wasn't emailing zip files filled with malware a fun exercise for some bad actors in recent history?) Cheers, Al Iverson -- Al Iverson www.aliverson.com (312)725-0130 On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Ken O'Driscoll via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > Hi Otto, > > Are you saying that you have difficulty relaying abuse reports to Google > hosted domains because their spam filtering generates false positives for > those emails? > > If that is what you are saying, then could you not tar or zip those reports > up like others do? Google isn't alone in flagging inline content like that. > > Also, individual Apps users can create mailbox rules to "never" flag email > from a particular source as spam. This is different from the global > whitelist. > > Does that answer your question or have I misunderstood what you want to > achieve? > > Ken. > > -- > Ken O'Driscoll / We Monitor Email > t: +353 1 254 9400 | w: www.wemonitoremail.com > > On Wed, 2017-05-03 at 13:57 +0300, Otto J. Makela wrote: >> We (Funet, the Finnish NREN) receive and obtain abuse reports >> from various sources and typically forward them to our clients, >> which include educational, research and some governmental sites. >> >> Some of our clients have outsourced their email to Google. The problem >> here is that also the abuse reporting addresses of these domains are >> subject >> to the whimsies of Google spam filtering. As far as I know, there is no >> "do not spam filter this address" type solutions for Google mail. >> >> An ad-hoc solution is to whitelist our outgoing email servers, >> but of course this doesn't help with reports sent directly to them >> and messages sent are noted only to "generally not be marked spam". >> >> https://support.google.com/a/answer/60751?hl=en >> >> Suggestions? >> > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
