Does marking an email as Junk in email clients get the email reported to VM?
Possibly a general query regarding how emails are processed by VM spam filters... Let's say I get an email purporting to be from Temu, or advising I have won a 170 piece Stanley Tool Set and it goes straight to my inbox, yet to be identified as Spam or suspicious. If I mark it as spam whilst in the web interface of my browser, I suspect it gets flagged as such to the mail detection services used by VM. Would this also be the case if I just dragged it into the Spam folder? If so, is it the act of placing it there that flags it, or the existence of the email in the Spam folder? The reason I ask is because I rarely use webmail, but instead use Outlook. When in Outlook, I can mark it as Junk and the sender's email address is added to Outlook's block list and it gets moved to the Junk/Spam folder anyway - but I'm well aware that email addresses - and even domains - are not the only thing that Spam filters check to determine the legitimacy of an email and I'd like to assist the learning processes used by VM's Spam algorithms/AI/filters to enable better detection. As they say... every little helps! If all I'm doing instead is blocking email addresses/domains in my email client, it's a bit of a selfish act and only 'protecting' my Inbox after things have been through VM's filters and VM doesn't learn anything from this. But if the 'appearance' of an email in the Spam folder highlights the email for a potential learning point, all is well and good. Otherwise, I guess I could just create a rule that forwards emails to both report@phishing.gov.uk and phishing@virginmedia.com and this could achieve a similar result?
