Can I 'Ask a Friend' Here on Behalf of a Friend ?

[pentaxpete]

My Camera Club / Flickr Mate has not been replying to so many of my e-mails and missing my monthly Zoom Meetings I organise until now when he found all my e-mails go into his 'JUNK' box ! Then if I reply to an e-mail HE SENDS ME it goes into his 'INBOX' correctly !! Anyone here got any explanation please ?

 

[sirch]

Email software "learns" what is spam by analysing who messages are from and the content of the message. It looks like his email software at some point in the past has decided emails from you are spam, the way to fix this is for your mate to drag the email out of his Junk folder and put them in his Inbox, also some email software has the option to mark a message a "Not Junk", this trains the software that these are not Junk. Your mate might have to do this several times before statistically it becomes more likely that a message from you is not Junk.

When you reply to one of his emails, either the header (part of the email you don't see) or body probably contains his email address in the chain of senders and so the spam filter decides it is OK.

 

[sep9001]

Hi

Do you know what email client he is using? Looks like your email is being flagged as spam so just needs to be added to the not spam email list.

 

[Retune]

Somehow your emails are being flagged as spam. To avoid this, ask your friend to 'whitelist' your email address. The method depends on who provides their email. This is how it works if they have gmail:

How to Safelist Important Contacts in Gmail

If Gmail is sending messages from a legitimate contact directly to your Spam folder, safelist the address to get them back in your inbox.

www.lifewire.com

Otherwise, to find appropriate instructions search for the name of their email provider and 'whitelist'. The settings have to be applied at their end.

 

[pentaxpete]

YO !! Many Thanks for quick Replies -- I have sent this to my Mate -- I left him a 'Message ' on FLICKR to look into his 'Junk File' !

 

[Tori_T]

If you reply to one of his messages, it will have a unique message ID in the header, assigned by his ESP to his original message, that they will recognise and allow back through.
As to why your mail is getting junked, there could be lots of reasons at lots of points in the chain.
If your friend has been misusing the spam button on his email client to delete messages, it may have flagged all your stuff.
If his ESP is scanning incoming mail, there may be something in your mail that's ticking a box that gets them marked.
Someone else may have been misusing their spam button on your emails, and their ESP has put you on a blacklist your friend's ESP uses.
If you use a generic ESP (yahoo/hotmail/gmail/etc.) his ESP may have flagged the domain (to the right of the @ symbol), if they've had too much spam from other users.
How much your friend can do to stop it depends on where in the chain your emails are being flagged.