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Parliamentary Email Disappears

I have just found that there is a spam filter on the @parliament.uk domain. This squirrels away emails it thinks are spam. Of course not all of them are spam.

Furthermore it doesn't tell the sender that it has trapped spam. What this means is that the @parliament.uk account is actually quite a dangerous one to use. There is absolutely no certainty that email gets to people.

Sadly, therefore, I cannot encourage people to use @parliament.uk. I don't have the time to check the spam filter all the time (particularly as I have my own one which works in a proper manner.)

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