siong1987

I am a frequent user of email service like Gmail.com, Ymail.com(Yahoo Mail) and Hotmail.com. I use Gmail.com for handling all my business contacts, Ymail.com for communicating with my girlfriend, and Hotmail for messaging my friends and family. But, I found that there is a big usability issue in Ymail.com.

The problem is that Ymail.com put my girlfriend’s email in SPAM folder if it sensed any so-called “spam word” in the email. But, I did send an email to my girlfriend before so the spam-filter should know that the email of my girlfriend should be one of my frequent contact. But, why the hell the spam-filter still put the email in the SPAM folder?

In fact, this is really a big deal if you are in my situation when my girlfriend is in Malaysia and at the same time I am studying in United States. Or, if you just send out an email which you just grab from a website and expect the person replies you as soon as possible. But, in the end, Ymail.com puts the replied email into your SPAM folder and you have no way to figure it out. Then, you miss some very important information from the person.

So, now, it raises a big question - “Should spam-filter appear?”

Spam-filter is used to filter out email that contains some so-called spam words or from suspicious spam email address. In fact, it is implemented to help us to avoid reading some useless marketing email. But, once the spam-filter gets smarter, it seems that the implementation of spam-filter actually disturbs us mentally.

Did you once in a situation that you have to check your emails in your spam folder in case that you may miss some very important emails that are automatically put in the spam folder? I think that any heavy email user will be at least once in this situation before. So, is there any solution for it?

Solutions:

1. Never give your email to someone who you think that will send you spam. Instead, you can create a mockup email for this purpose since creating new email is just FREE.
2. Never post your email in forum because some automated system are created to collect email list from the web.
3. If you really have to post your email on the forum, you can encrypt it by using method like: address at email dot com.

But, if you are in my case, the only solution for you is to make up some reasons that to “cheat”(this word is so heavy to be used here!) your girlfriend. Remember! She will never believe that her email actually went to the spam folder and you just forgot to check your spam folder.