Post · bonfire.cafe

If I was running a paid for hosted email platform, I would expect my customers to expect that an email that matches the following kind of pattern would be readily identified as spam:

Subject:
“FedEx Delivery”

FROM address:
fedexdelivery@[very-much-not-a-fedex-domain]

Why?

- because FedEx is a very big global brand
- because FedEx has well known domains

The platform I’ve currently paid for is *incapable* of such triage :/

Hamish Buchanan

@hamishb@mstdn.ca · 2 weeks ago

I get those, too, and it is bizarre. Maybe the email platforms are using AI to screen and the predictability makes them acceptable?

I always get them around the time I'm expecting an actual delivery (even if not from FedEx). It seems like all the major international shippers were hacked years ago and nobody has cared to plug the leak yet.

@urlyman

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

@hamishb interesting thought. Sorry you are subjected to them too

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

…Fed up with it. Waste of money

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

…Well. 12 hours since the last time I dragged another several tens of very obviously spam emails to Spam so that my email provider’s ‘spam filter’ can fail to learn anything.

And now I’ve just dragged another ~130 there so that I can discern the 2 that weren’t spam.

One of which was a support ticket response from my email provider advising me to “keep an eye on the spam filter for 5 - 7 days” after it’s had a “server-side update”

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

…I’ll give it one more day to see a difference. Not because I expect to see a difference, but because I don’t have the time or brain space today to move my email away to somewhere I have in mind that promises to be better :/

Jonathan Schofield

@urlyman@mastodon.social · last week

…Well, for various reasons I didn’t get round to moving my email again.

And now there are tentative signs that Tuta is *finally* beginning to catch and filter some spam. It’s been a month of being utterly useless at it.

Let’s see for a little while longer

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Solar 🌄Garden

@wavesculptor@climatejustice.social · 2 weeks ago

@urlyman This is tutamail, I seem to remember from way downstream? It was recommended to me but I held off. If I still need to go anywhere else soon, posteo would probably be my choice. They make it easy to get your money back -- does tuta?

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