Reunion Talk Digest emails always going to my Mac Mail junk folder

[Gato]

Re: Reunion Talk Digest emails always going to my Mac Mail junk folder

Create a mailbox with a name like Reunion. Make a rule in your email as shown in the attachment to route to that mailbox. The rule takes precedence over the junk filter. Problem solved.

Hello Bob,

Thanks for that suggestion. My only reservation about the setup you suggest is that it is not my preferred solution: to make the integration of Mail and Contacts for whitelisting purposes recognize ReunionTalk email as legitimate, like all other corporate or marketing email addresses in my Contacts, and place them automatically in the inbox, not junk mail. I have attempted to use Mail rules to resolve this, so far without success.

As I've said, I don't see this as a major issue. It is more in the nature of nice-to-have. Absolute perfection in sifting out junk mail is elusive: visual checking of the inbox and junk mail folders is always necessary.

Despite being intuitive, highly effective, and mostly reliable, I have seen other signs that the whitelisting possible due to the integration of Mail and Contacts is not 100% perfect: sometimes, although rarely in my experience, spammers still manage to break through by means I lack the technical expertise to analyze. It is very possible that this, as well as the problem with ReunionTalk email, indicates a remaining bug or vulnerability in the integration of Mail and Contacts that I need to raise with Apple. However, it is good to have such ideas and suggestions as yours from fellow Reunion users before I go that route.

Regards,

Gato

[Bob White]

Re: Reunion Talk Digest emails always going to my Mac Mail junk folder

Create a mailbox with a name like Reunion. Make a rule in your email as shown in the attachment to route to that mailbox. The rule takes precedence over the junk filter. Problem solved.

[Gato]

Re: Reunion Talk Digest emails always going to my Mac Mail junk folder

Hi Gato,

Do you have your contact set up for "Reunion Talk" with a space between the two words or as "ReunionTalk" which is the correct way? That may make the difference...maybe.

Regards,
Kaye

Hi Kaye,

Thanks for your response and suggestion.

The corporate name of my Contact card for ReunionTalk is “ReunionTalk Digest (Leister Productions)”—that is, with ReunionTalk closed up, as you suggest—although, in my understanding, the individual or company name on the Contact card is configurable according to user choice, and not used in junk mail filtering. Mail uses the name to identify the sender in the inbox list.

The email address on the card, which I understand is the lookup data for Mail junk mail filtering purposes, is digest@ReunionTalk.com

Regards,

Gato.

[kmgenealogy]

Re: Reunion Talk Digest emails always going to my Mac Mail junk folder

Hi Gato,

Do you have your contact set up for "Reunion Talk" with a space between the two words or as "ReunionTalk" which is the correct way? That may make the difference...maybe.

Regards,
Kaye

[Gato]

For at least a year, despite my best efforts, Mac Mail has been putting all Leister Productions Reunion Talk Digest emails into its junk folder.

I maintain a rigorous "white listing" strategy against junk mail, using the excellent integration of the Mac Mail email client app and the Mac Contacts: everyone I want to receive email from has a contact card in Contacts, many--including a unique card for Reunion Talk, separate from the one for Leister Productions, in case too many addresses on one contact card was causing problems.

My Mail preference settings against junk are simple, and work very well for the large number other legitimate corporate or promotional emails to which I subscribe: I have checked "Enable junk mail filtering", "Move it to the junk mailbox" (When junk mail arrives); and "Sender of message is in my Contacts" (messages exempt from junk mail filtering).

This is a minor inconvenience, easily handled by visual checking, and moving Reunion emails to the inbox before deleting junk, but it would be nice to ensure that Mail does not misidentify as junk one of the most utterly trustworthy of all my corporate email contacts.

Before I raise this with Apple Support, does anyone else see a similar issue? Does anyone have any fix that I might have overlooked? Have Mark and the crew at Leister any insight into what appears to be something in the addressing of Reunion Talk Digest emails that under the Mail settings I have described make them the only "approved" email that regularly ends up in the Junk mailbox?

Gato
(Canberra, Australia)

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