Committee applicant emails going to spam

[jducoeur]

We've seen many applications to volunteer@typelevel.org wind up in peoples' spam boxes. It isn't terribly clear why, but Google clearly is temperamental about them. (Which is disappointing, since this is a "collaborative inbox" hosted by Google Groups itself.)

Can we do anything about this?

[jducoeur]

From Ross:

I created a "collaborative inbox" in Google groups, called typelevel-steering. typelevel.org is hosted by Google Domains and lets us set up e-mail aliases.

[rossabaker]

Also, they are not being caught by the group's spam filter, but they're being caught by many individuals' spam filters. The core functionality of the group inbox is fine, but the e-mail notifications to individuals to know there's something to tend to in the group inbox is not fine.

In my case, these are making it through Google Groups and my domain's filtering, but flagged by GMail. From their instructions,

Mark incorrectly classified messages as Not spam

Gmail uses machine learning to better understand your preferences, and to recognize spam. When you manually mark a message as not spam, Gmail learns how to manage messages addressed to you.

Add trusted senders to your personal contacts list

Users in your domain can manage their personal contacts list in Gmail. When a user adds an external address to their contacts list, Gmail won't mark messages from the external address as spam.

I can't add trusted senders to my list when the messages I want are from novel senders. I'll try the first, but it's at best a prayer to the opacity of machine learning.