I know there is a section for potential spam mails. But I wonder whether Proton block some of them so that they won’t even reach that section. I am using it as my primary email right now and recently a recruiter tried sending me an email for tech discussion but it never reached my inbox. They were sure it was sent, and I later received on my alternative gmail. Is there any possibility that this could have happened for other reasons?

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    2 months ago

    If the recruiter sent an email from a domain that wasn’t properly configured (DKIM+SPF, etc) then it would have sent a bounce email, which may have gone to the recruiter’s span folder, or they may have ignored the bounce email thinking it was a phishing email.

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        It depends. They, like all mail services, will follow DKIM and SPF so if someone has DKIM+SPF set on company.com correctly and someone sets up a newsletter sending from mail.company.com, that’s a misconfiguration that causes Proton, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, Apple, and all the other large players to bounce the email.

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          yeah i think this might be the reason, but i don’t know how to avoid this since it’s an issue from their side

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            Nothing you can do until they fix it. If they really want to recruit you that bad, ask them to send the email to themselves and forward it to you.