@Stirbitch wrote:
......VM is still applying spam filtering, despite the fact that I have it turned off, and it has had several false positives recently.
It looks as if you are seeing the effects of the two step process that VM uses to identify and deal with suspicious emails:
1) Firstly, they employ checks to determine the authenticity of each email message. So, rather than looking at the content of the email they consider whether it really comes from the sender that it appears to come from and has not been "spoofed".
Essentially, that means checking the domain name of the email address and the server the email came from. If the server is not authorised to send emails for that domain then the email will fail the authenticity check and will be sent to your spam folder even if you turned spam filter off.
2) Only if the email passes that check will the VM spam filter come into operation and decide whether it looks like spam. As you know, if you have the spam filter turned off then emails classes as spam will be flagged as spam but sent to your inbox.
To sum up, It is likely that the 'spam' you are seeing in your spam folder are emails that have failed the authenticity check and been put into your spam folder as being potential spoofed emails.
Those emails could be spoofed emails (in the sense that someone is trying to deceive you) but probably many are genuine but come from email services that are not setup properly and therefore they look suspicious as far as VM are concerned.
The bottom line is that unless you can get VM to change the way they deal with spoofed (or potentially spoofed) emails you are stuck with this behaviour. Just one more reason to switch to a dedicated email service. 😉
Coenoby
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