Sep 08 2008
Be Careful When Forwarding Email
When you forward email from one address to another this can sometime lead to difficulties with filtering.
The worst example would be having a hotmail email address that you know forward to work or even gmail.
One of the checks that spam filters do is to check and see who the email is coming from (one reason spammers like to fake a real legitimate email as the from). If they see that it is coming from your toher legitimate email address, they won’t check any further.
While any good filter will check more than that, not all of them do and this can lead to you having a lot more spam in your inbox.
Solutions:
* Tell people about the email address change and give everyone a deadline to change over all their records. Examples, my old email address will be off in 6 months please update your records to “new address”, adding this in the footer of your emails out for a little while too.
* Get a better filter that checks much more than where an email is coming from (and there is my plug for our product, of course).
