I’ve been experiencing problems with people who said that they had sent me emails which I never received. I thought there were some temporary problems with my mailbox (with alice.it) since it’s not unusual to see the pop server complaining for nonsensical reasons.

This morning I noticed that I had no new messages in Evolution (my email client of choice) and this was a bit weird since I’m subscribed to a few mailing lists. I tried accessing my mailbox from alice’s web interface and, while it was true that there were no new emails, I noticed that there were about 860 emails in the junk folder, even though I had never set up a junk filter. A lot of emails were spam but a number of other messages were not. The website says that the emails in the junk folder are automatically deleted after 20 days. Now I’m wondering how many emails I lost all these years thanks to such a smart junk filter (which I hope I have disabled for good now).

If you sent me an email and didn’t receive a reply, it is very likely that alice’s spam filter is to blame.

P.S. If you sent me an email on adding the latest release of the graphics driver then I’ve definitely received a lot of them but I haven’t replied yet since I’ve been very busy with some new projects which I hope to be able to show soon. I will blog about the new drivers soon too since, in case you had doubts, I’m working on them.