My email thinks the US Department of Education is spam

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[–]StillLessons 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

For those of you who are more technically minded, what the hell is going on with e-mail? My e-mail is truly bizarre. It marks people as spam sometimes. Some messages get through from people sometimes. Other times, they get filtered. The same people. In my brief foray into looking into the technical aspects of setting up a personal e-mail server for myself, it became clear e-mail has a lot of technical complexity. That to me says there is a major "vetting" process in this communication channel. The idea that our e-mail is remotely "private" when it comes to official actors strikes me as absurd. Meanwhile, the complexity they've built into it in order to assure their ability to tap into the flow creates tons of weird side-effects.

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Protonmail is just really strict with their spam detection. IDK about your email provider, but if a bot reads the messages to determine if it's spam: it might have to do with the wording.