Each individual user of Hotmail can go to his junk mail folder, find a
piece of mail from a mailing list, designate it as from a mailing list,
and not have to worry about it going to junk mail again. At least, that is
the theory.
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Joseph Brennan wrote:
>
>>> It seems that my mail list has a number of Hotmail users that are
>>> receiving mail into their Junk Mail folder. I seem to recall a thread
>>> on this in the past, but couldn't find the information I was looking for
>>> in the archive.
>
>An infamous feature of Hotmail is to classify mail as junk if
>it does not have the recipient's hotmail address in the TO or
>CC lines. This consigns almost all mailing list mail to the
>junk folder. The Hotmail users can reconfigure this. I do not
>know the details, only that this happens.
>
>It also sends forwarded mail to junk, and BCC'd mail.
>
>Joseph Brennan Columbia University in the City of New York
>postmaster@columbia.edu Academic Technologies Group
>
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