Dnia 16.10.2019 o godz. 03:43:10 Ángel via mailop pisze: > > Suppose you bought service/product X, but didn't receive the > confirmation email. > Note: You are an end user, and don't have access to the server logs. ;) > > Did the have an issue sending you the mail? Was it rejected locally as > spam? Is it pending that their financial department actually approves > the operation? > > For the case where it ended up detected as spam: > a) if it was filed into a Spam folder, the user can find it there > directly > b) if it was rejected at smtp-level, you would need to hope that the > sender cared and implemented some logic to do something with it, rather > than ignore delivery errors. The email sender probably doesn't care > contacting you -it is *you* who requested to be mailed- and is likely to > assume that you provided a wrong email address. In fact, from their > point of view, your email address is invalid, since they can't write to > you (they are blocked by the spam filter).7 > > As such, the spam folder provides a self-service option that benefits > sysadmins and smart users.
We can think of two quite opposite cases here. First one is what you describe. You bought something, want to register on some website etc. - in short, you are *expecting* a message from a particular sender and it's *you* who is interested in getting the message. Then you may actually look for the message in your spam folder if you don't see it in your inbox. Second case is when you want to *send* mail to someone. Someone is selling something on the Internet, you want to buy it, but in order to do it, you have to send e-mail to the seller's address provided in the ad. Someone published an article on a website, and you want to send him/her your comments via e-mail address published under the article. Or you just want to contact some person on any matter, and someone gave you their email address. In that case the recipient is *not* expecting mail from you, and you are the one interested that your message actually gets to the recipient. If the message ends in his/her spam folder, he/she has no clue to look there for it - unless you have another way to contact the recipient and tell him to look there. That's a more problematic case. -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://chilli.nosignal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mailop
