So basically, what would be interesting to have is both : land the email in
the spam folder but notify the sender about if, maybe via an ARF report ?
That way, the event organizer or the one applying for a job would be able
to notify the recipient about the email being in spam.

Le jeu. 15 sept. 2022 à 22:33, Jaroslaw Rafa via mailop <mailop@mailop.org>
a écrit :

> Dnia 15.09.2022 o godz. 11:32:41 Jay Hennigan via mailop pisze:
> >
> > If recipients at least periodically scan the contents of the spam folder
> and
> > mark wanted mail, this avoids the need for the sender to communicate
> > out-of-band to deliver the original (and likely future) messages as
> would be
> > the case with a rejection.
>
> I understand that was the whole assumption behind the concept of spam
> folders. If it actually worked this way, spam folders wouldn't be any
> issue.
> But this assumption failed: the reality is that 99% of users don't check
> their spam folders at all, so directing a message to spam folder
> effectively
> equals blackholing. The sender needs to communicate out-of-band anyway to
> ask the recipient to check their spam folder.
>
> Spam folder can work if the user is setting it up him/herself. That is, the
> provider's antispam system only tags the message as spam (in subject or
> another header) and the user must manually set up a filter to move tagged
> messages into spam folder. Because they set it up themselves, chances are
> they will look into it from time to time. If this is something that is
> preconfigured for them by the provider, they usually don't look anywhere
> else
> except the main inbox.
>
> Of course, training the filter by moving the messages in and out of spam
> folder will be harder to implement by the provider in this setup, but it is
> still possible to do.
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