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Someone Shares Their Story About How Not Checking Their Gmail Spam Folder Possibly Cost Them Their Whole Career
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Someone Shares Their Story About How Not Checking Their Gmail Spam Folder Possibly Cost Them Their Whole Career

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Who reads their spam? Our inboxes are bombarded with so many junk missiles, nothing good can come from it, right? Well, not exactly. Especially if you have ongoing correspondence that might accidentally end up where it shouldn’t be. And since most e-mail security systems arent 100 percent effective, soon or later such a mess up is bound to happen. Just ask /u/DoopleWrites. After finishing their book, they sent the manuscript to a bunch of publishers. As time passed, Doople thought they weren’t getting any responses and kinda forgot the whole thing. Until they opened their spam folder months later.

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“It took me a year and a half to finish writing and editing that book,” Doople told Bored Panda. “It’s a horror/thriller that follows the story of a college graduate taking a temporary job at a ski resort and finding out that the owners have more sinister plans for the staff.”

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“I’ve written about 40 short stories and 2 other books before this one, but none of them were published.”

Sadly, the future for this one doesn’t look good, either. “I did [contact the publisher that got back to me], but I haven’t yet gotten a reply. I’m staying hopeful that they’ll still be interested!”

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    “Surprisingly enough, I haven’t experienced anything like this in the past,” Doople said. “Unless I just haven’t noticed it happening until now.”

    According to Sleeknote, there might be a lot of reasons why the important letters that you receive end up in spam. The most popular ones include using spam trigger words (for example, “You’re the winner!”), added attachments (even if the virus scan says they’re clean, sometimes anti-spam filters might misinterpret the slow load time of the e-mail as something dirty), a large image with little text, and even incorrect spelling and grammar.

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    Rokas Laurinavičius

    Rokas Laurinavičius

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    Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

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    Rokas Laurinavičius

    Rokas Laurinavičius

    Writer, BoredPanda staff

    Rokas is a writer at Bored Panda with a BA in Communication. After working for a sculptor, he fell in love with visual storytelling and enjoys covering everything from TV shows (any Sopranos fans out there?) to photography. Throughout his years in Bored Panda, over 300 million people have read the posts he's written, which is probably more than he could count to.

    anonymous

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    This lazy panda forgot to write something about itself.

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    anonymous

    anonymous

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    This lazy panda forgot to write something about itself.

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    Miklós Nagy
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who else checked their spam folder right after reading this?

    Cora Han
    Community Member
    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doesn't Google automatically delete spam after 30 days? Mine does....

    Suzanne Harris
    Community Member
    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This does not seem legitimate to me. Gmail automatically deletes spam emails once they reach 30 days old.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
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    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think there's an option you can turn off. I don't use Gmail, but my Outlook account has that feature.

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    Miklós Nagy
    Community Member
    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Who else checked their spam folder right after reading this?

    Cora Han
    Community Member
    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Doesn't Google automatically delete spam after 30 days? Mine does....

    Suzanne Harris
    Community Member
    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This does not seem legitimate to me. Gmail automatically deletes spam emails once they reach 30 days old.

    Celtic Pirate Queen
    Community Member
    5 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think there's an option you can turn off. I don't use Gmail, but my Outlook account has that feature.

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