Do you get a lot of junk mail? Do you do this?
If you're tired of junk mail and have resorted to just sending it to "junk", you might be junking your own email. Yup! That's what happened to me.
I get tons of the stuff and kept setting "rules" until I discovered that neat little feature in Outlook where you can "add sender to blocked senders list". Imagine my glee to find this easy method to dump the trash.
After a few weeks, I was testing my auto responder and the messages were not getting to my inbox. I checked my online web mail and it wasn't in that junk box. I checked my deleted folder and it wasn't there.
Hm. This had never happened before, so I went to GetResponse for answers. I must have wasted days just trying to figure out what was wrong. And then, I remembered my own junk box.
Lo and behold, there were about 15 of my own GR test messages. I was still puzzled, however. Why were they going there now?
Shortly after, I was doing my usual "junk mail" marking when I noticed some emails that I was junking were addressed "from" myself. Spammers were using my email address to send me junk. Now, I know this isn't possible, but they had somehow made it so that it looks like it comes from me.
That's when I realized that by junking all of those fake emails from myself, I had blacklisted my own email address.
For the first time in my life I had people saying they'd sent me stuff multiple times and I hadn't received it (or so I thought)... important stuff, like notification from my public library that my books are due.
So for any of you who are using the "mark as junk" feature, you might want to double check and make sure you aren't blacklisting yourself.
The problem is now resolved, but I am still a bit puzzled as to why ALL of my mail didn't go to junk, so there must be something else in those messages / headers / or whatever, that made the difference.
Sylvia
I get tons of the stuff and kept setting "rules" until I discovered that neat little feature in Outlook where you can "add sender to blocked senders list". Imagine my glee to find this easy method to dump the trash.
After a few weeks, I was testing my auto responder and the messages were not getting to my inbox. I checked my online web mail and it wasn't in that junk box. I checked my deleted folder and it wasn't there.
Hm. This had never happened before, so I went to GetResponse for answers. I must have wasted days just trying to figure out what was wrong. And then, I remembered my own junk box.
Lo and behold, there were about 15 of my own GR test messages. I was still puzzled, however. Why were they going there now?
Shortly after, I was doing my usual "junk mail" marking when I noticed some emails that I was junking were addressed "from" myself. Spammers were using my email address to send me junk. Now, I know this isn't possible, but they had somehow made it so that it looks like it comes from me.
That's when I realized that by junking all of those fake emails from myself, I had blacklisted my own email address.
For the first time in my life I had people saying they'd sent me stuff multiple times and I hadn't received it (or so I thought)... important stuff, like notification from my public library that my books are due.
So for any of you who are using the "mark as junk" feature, you might want to double check and make sure you aren't blacklisting yourself.
The problem is now resolved, but I am still a bit puzzled as to why ALL of my mail didn't go to junk, so there must be something else in those messages / headers / or whatever, that made the difference.
Sylvia
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