On 6/8/23 05:45, tom petch wrote:
1) when my ESP classifies so much as junk, some clearly wrongly, why
does it fail to classify this obvious junk (which comes from the same
domain as my address)?
Because a lot of spam filters are written by incompetent people. Poorly
designed spam filters are arguably the worst problem that email has and
the biggest contributor to degraded reliability of email. For whatever
reason (and I've heard many explanations of varying validity), IETF has
abandoned any effort to fix the problem.
(BTW, spam sent with a bogus return address, but using the domain name
from the recipient's email address, is a pretty common ruse not only for
advertising spam, but also for spearfishing and similar attacks. It
should probably be somewhat of a red flag to mail filters, but using
this naively would be worse than ignoring it.)
2) do other domains than btconnect.com have the same issue with outlook?
Yes. And many more issues than these.
Keith
