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On 13/06/2016 23:24, Martijn Grooten wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 12:49:25PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: >> If you (or rather the email provider you use) used SPF then you >> probably wouldn't see them. > > No, that wouldn't help (because SPF 'protects' a different From address > than the one you see in your mail client). > > There are many good reasons why someone would receive emails from their > own email address, automatic alerts being one common example. > > While most usesrs will never receive legitimate emails from their own > address, it is too common a use case for spam filters to block them > outright. > > Martijn. > > > Emails to own email addresses, apart from auto alerts , there is a use case as below. I use my own email address to receive from myself as a back up. Held on ISP's servers. One of my emails always copies to another email address and vice versa. Thus all emails are always on all systems and visible. Some POP 3 (I know!); some IMAP emails into email client. Also at work, all sent emails are also copied into received emails. Thus received folder and incoming email gives a full daily log and documents, it has 'saved the day' when things go wrong. Main reason is I work over 6 different time zones and my received log gives actual time in UK Time sent or received. Incoming copies of my emails when returned by recipient can be 9 hours ahead or 10 hours behind of when I sent them when quoted from recipient's header & logs in dispute evidence. (Very rarely for printed out evidential dispute emails to have full header with both time zones.) Very little spam into my own email addresses is received, usually less than 1~5 per month over some 9 email addresses. However ISP stops about 20~40 per month, cleared out on monthly basis. This has been average over some 15 years of this system with monthly email flow out of my writing about 400-500 and unique incoming (foreign composed) about 200-300 (USA, EU, Koreas, PR China, RO China, Japan, other-Asia, the *stans ex soviet etc.). -- regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq