What is the correct way to write a follow-up email in case the first one ended up in spam folder? It's been several weeks that I sent an email regarding to an open call for a position.
The position is advertised in a personal webpage with the message &quot;[...] suitable candidates feel free to contact me,&quot; as opposed to the &quot;job vacancies&quot; page which the faculty has. There is no mentioned deadline.
I have mistakenly used my commercial email address instead of my academic email address.
I know that some people filter the incoming emails with respect to the domain name to reduce the number of spams in the primary inbox folder. I am afraid that this is the case.
So, I am considering to send a follow-up (duplicate) email to make sure that the email reached to the person. However, I am not sure how to word the email as I blindly assume that the person uses such filter.
Please note that I am perfectly fine with the idea of my assumption being wrong and the person choosing to ignore my email since I am not a good enough candidate. My concern is that I am a considerable candidate but I might have lost my chance because of some technical issue.
The best outline I have come up with is to write &quot;(please ignore if duplicate)&quot; in the subject, and blame my email provider in the first sentence, and then copy/paste the rest of the mail.
What is the least annoying way to recieve a potential duplicate email?
Do not send a duplicate email. Send a follow-up email, with the previous one at the bottom (&quot;several weeks&quot; is already long enough without even an acknowledgement of receipt). Send it from your other address without mentioning the spam issue.
If your email was indeed lost to a filter, this resurrects it, without being an annoyance in the opposite case. Out of the 1% of people who will notice the different sender address (assuming the name you configured to appear is the same in both accounts), 90% will not care and 9% will guess why.
(If you are not sure how to write that follow-up email, it is a different question, that likely has many duplicates at workplace.se).