Just tested straight to spam today:
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It works exactly as advertised:
- Send an email to someone whose address book contains your email address, and it will not go to spam.
- Send an email to someone whose address book does not contain your email address, and it goes straight to the spam folder.
The email body is indeed invisible, at least in the Gmail web UI. Even Ctrl+A
won’t reveal it. If you click “Show original” to inspect the full message body and headers though, you’ll see some junk like the following:
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There’s actually more, but I don’t want to make this post too spammy for search engines.
The aforementioned text is wrapped in this HTML:
<div dir=3D"ltr">Hello<span style=3D"color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:&qu=
ot;Comic Sans MS";font-size:1px">
Which explains why it is ‘invisible’ (note the white color).