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		nivla on March 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: About that time Google spied on my Gmail Checking if a message is marked spam or not isn't the best way to confirm a legal delivery. Say, I setup my Gmail to forward all mails to my thunderbird or outlook but when it gets there, the respective clients accidentally filter the specific message as spam, what then? Monitoring for a "read bit" on the message is the only way to confirm proper delivery.

oh_sigh on March 22, 2014 [–]

If you forward your mail to thunderbird, then gmail would have no knowledge of how you marked it.

nivla on March 22, 2014 | [–]

If you are using IMAP, it keeps the status of the message synced with the server.

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