Home Exchange Emails Being Lost In Your Spam Folder
This is an old, old chestnut, but I’m afraid I must drag it out, dust it off and bring it to your attention yet again. If you are a someone who has a home exchange listing, with us or any other club—CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER!
Over and over I’m receiving puzzled, disappointed, frequently frustrated reports from ExchangeHomes members who tell me they are sending out home exchange inquiry emails, never to receive a reply. I in turn send emails to some of the members who were contacted and also never receive a reply. I then phone them and in every single case they claim to have never received any of these emails.
I ask if they check their spam folders regularly—no, they either click to empty them occasionally without ever checking the contents, or have them set to purge automatically after x-amount of days.
People simply don’t realize that these days, the majority of email programs compare the addresses of incoming emails against a) the recipient’s “Friends List” and b) their stored list of email addresses. If the email address of the incoming mail doesn’t find a match in either of these, it’s immediately discarded to their spam folder.
I completely understand that sorting through all the spam mail is frustrating, but all that is usually required is a careful review of the subject lines—opening and reading each one certainly isn’t necessary. Make a habit of actually reviewing the contents of your spam folder because you could be missing out on some great home exchange opportunities.
