Email: Am I the only one who checks their Spam (Junk) Box?

[Frog]

I use Thunderbird for the business, and Yahoo as a catch-all, and they both prominently list the number of new and unread emails in there. Don't most email programs?
In the last week, I have had two instances of a breakdown in communication with other shops due to misdirected messages. These important communications, unrecognized as important, languished in spam/junk purgatory.
I see so much, mostly from folks younger than me, eschewing the phone in favor of email for their business, yet if they don't pay attention, can lose some important stuff, and possibly some reputation and money as well.
The Yelper is merely going to post that he was ignored.

[GaryG]

Being on Safari, it all comes into one box with no spam to worry about.
Lots of middle finger deletes but see everything. Certainly time to upgrade.

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[kingscreen]

We check ours regularly throughout the day. We find an actual email in there about every other day.

[Crazy Mike]

We get a few good emails in the junk box each week, like one of our customers who has the last
name of Manlove.

[JoppaMill]

If someone inspected my junk folder they would think I was an impotent male, looking to further his online education, with a fetish for knock-off high-end watches.

[Sbrem]

Yes, I check, on rare occasion there is something real in there, very rare I might add...

Steve

[Dottonedan]

I've checked mine often enough to know that I can stop checking it now except for every month or so.  Rarely find anything in there that I want (if ever).

[Frog]

Rare for me as well, but as I said, two instances last week.
One was from a referral for some strange one-offs to a member here, and the other was my emails suddenly going to spam on someone's AOL account who has received plenty of my emails from my same address over the years .

[mimosatexas]

I'm the member referral, and I admit I rarely if ever check my spam folder unless someone has contacted me by phone or through facebook (or PM in this case) and said they emailed me but never heard back.  I get around 200 spam messages a day these days so I simply ignore it.  I'm not at all averse to communicating by phone, and thought I sent you my phone number too Frog, though the forum doesn't save sent PM's so I may have left that off.

Either way, I'm sorry I failed here.  I did email him after your PM and finding his email in spam, but did not get a response so I assume he either found another vendor or was no longer interested in working with me which is understandable when you're on a deadline.

edit: Was just shown how to turn on the feature that saves sent PM's by default, which is awesome!  Not sure why this wouldn't be the default, but anyway...  Mouse over profile and click account settings, then mouse over modify profile and click personal messaging, then click the box that says Save a copy of each personal message in my sent items by default. and click change profile.

[Frog]

To be fair, the artist client in question had your other contact info, and could have followed up that way as well.
My consternation was fueled by two different instances in one week.

[stitches4815]

We check ours regularly and find regular emails in it.  I hate spam.