Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Email Quirks

Random note on something about my work email system that's always struck me as weird: when you 'blacklist' a sender, it doesn't automatically delete the message.

So you have to select the spam message, blacklist, then select it again and delete it (then, if you want to be technical, you have to hit 'purge deleted' to actually remove it from the inbox, but that's a step I can live with since I see value to being able to recover deleted messages for a while).

It just seems like an unnecessary extra step. I mean, sure, I guess there could be times you want to blacklist a sender, but still keep the message (maybe you're forwarding it to your IT folk to say "hey, check out this ingenious spam" or whatever), but it can't happen often.

I'm used to Hotmail, where if you mark something as "junk" it automatically moves to the deleted folder.

Ah well. Different systems have different designs.

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