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lifeisstillgood on Nov 15, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpamAssassin is back

Just dont block anything that has an email address you have mailed to before. Its highly unlikely an important email will come from someone I have not mailed.

I am playing with different gmail api fixes to do things like this - with 12,000 unread mails in my inbox I need some automated help.

And if the lottery commission wants to tell me I have won, they can get my number easily.

tinus_hn on Nov 15, 2018 | [–]

If you never sign up for services on the web and are not part of mailing lists.

z3t4 on Nov 15, 2018 | [–]

It has mostly been invoices. It's however like if they want the invoice to get lost so they can send a remainder with a +50$ added to the 5$ bill.

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