what does [bulk] mean in an email subject?

[Andy_760]

I often receive emails with [bulk] in the subject line. What does this mean?

 

[Peter Foldes]

Sent to multiple recipients. Most likely Spam

 

[F.H. Muffman]

I often receive emails with [bulk] in the subject line. What does

Sent to multiple recipients. Most likely Spam

It also means that you have some application installed, or your ISP does,
that marks the message a bulk message, or the message was sent with that
in the subject line in the first place, as Outlook does not add information
to the subject line

 

[Andy_760]

Thank you, Peter, however, this email was in response to one that I had sent
- to my sister!

Sent to multiple recipients. Most likely Spam

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I often receive emails with [bulk] in the subject line. What does this mean?

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

either you or she (or the isp is) is running anti-spam software that adds
the tag to potential spam.

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Thank you, Peter, however, this email was in response to one that I had
sent
- to my sister!

Sent to multiple recipients. Most likely Spam

--
Peter

Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.

I often receive emails with [bulk] in the subject line. What does this
mean?

 

[VanguardLH]

I often receive emails with [bulk] in the subject line. What does this mean?

Check the raw source of the e-mail in its headers to see if the
following header was used:

Precedence: bulk

That header is used to identify bulk e-mail. Outlook does not alter the
Subject line to add "[bulk]". You or your e-mail provider are using
anti-spam software that modifies the e-mail before it is delivered to
Outlook.

Have the sender send you another e-mail. Don't use Outlook. Instead
use the webmail interface to your e-mail account to look at that test
message. Is "[bulk]" in the Subject of that test message when it is
still on the mail host? If not, then retrieve it using Outlook. Did
that string show up in the copy displayed inside Outlook? If it wasn't
shown in the server-side copy of the mail but shows up in your local
copy inside of Outlook then you are the one running anti-spam software
that adds that string to the Subject header. If the string was already
in the Subject header when looking at it using the webmail interface
then your e-mail provider, the sender's mail server, or the sender added
it.