On 13/02/2021 12:28, Mathew Newton wrote:
On 13/02/2021 09:00, Tim Streater wrote:
Given that large mail providers can't perform filtering during receipt of mail (i.e. whilst the SMTP dialogue is still underway) if a message is subsequently found to be spam ...

What d'ye mean "subsequently found to be spam"? It's not the business of an
email transporter to have an opinion about what is spam or not. That's a
matter for the recipient, whose job it is to train their email client to do
the filtering.

Email 'transporter'? The like of Hotmail, Gmail etc are much more than that - it's part of their service offering to filter mailicious and unwanted mail. Both require a judgement, but they are in a much better position than the recipient to perform that function hence why they offer it.

If you don't like the service(s) being offered then shop around to one that you do - it'd be interesting to hear if there are any mail platforms that don't perform any filtering and deliver *everything* to your Inbox though. Of course, as this is a DIY group, you can also do it yourself and hence have full control.

which I do


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