Every Tuesday morning, I find TidBITS in the “Junk” folder. Same thing with a variety of emails I suscribe to. Every time, I tell Outlook “not Junk”. Doesn’t matter, the next email from that sender is in the Junk folder. But genuine spam I get from the same place every day (like BackerUpdate)? no matter how often I flag it as junk, it still shows up in my inbox. Is it me or is machine learning vastly overrated?
Looks like Outlook doesn’t do any client-side spam filtering, and explicitly says that moving messages to Junk does nothing for the future.
I strongly recommend you get @mjtsai’s SpamSieve.
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Thanks Adam, I will definitely take a long hard look at this.
It’s interesting to read this after being caught in the disaster of Siteground’s home-grown spam filter. Although it offered a way to whitelist false positives caught by the spam filter, I would soon find more mail from the whitelisted source in the spam filter. Worse, I was told by one source, they sent out bounce notices that urged senders not to send me mail. They blocked important contacts, and I’m still sorting out the mess it caused after transferring my email to FastMail, which was a big improvement. I am amazed how many companies offering spam filtering don’t understand how bad spam filters that block important contracts can be a disaster for a person or business.
Designate TidBITS as a Safe Sender.
But even that might not work. Which email provider are you using Outlook with?