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Gmail Declares MMDigest Is "Promotions"
By Marc Kaufman

[ Matthew Caulfield wrote in 211201 MMDigest:

> This MMD [211130 MMDigest] went into my "Promotions" box, not to
> its usual position in my "Primary" Inbox folder.

So don't use the Gmail client on a desktop computer. Use Thunderbird
or some other mail program. MMD is not filtered with Thunderbird.

Marc Kaufman

 [ Marc, the Gmail client filtering issue is easily solved with a user-
 [ generated filter.  Many of the other ISPs are actually blocking the
 [ MMD entirely, some sending back "SPAM" or "Bounce" messages to our
 [ email service provider, thereby removing them from the subscription
 [ list.   Using Thunderbird (which I use a lot) is beyond the technical
 [ capabilities of most of our subscribers.  And using it effectively
 [ would require an email service provider that doesn't SPAM filter our
 [ messages.   I'm at my witt's end.  Sigh...   --Jody



(Message sent Thu, 9 Dec 2021 23:08:58 -0800 , from time zone -0800.)

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