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IANAL, but I feel a bigger risk would be that you trigger it before it should.

Maybe a bug in your emailserver or that the configuration option that you used to correctly turn off the spam-filter had a bug in it and caused some of the I'm-alive signals to be dropped.

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Or worse, your final message gets silently filtered out by the recipient's Gmail/Hotmail for some reason.

Wouldn't be worse as that's not the creator's fault.

As long as the creator didn't do anything wrong to trigger gmail/hotmails detections to go bad. And by wrong I mean violate the undocumented and completely arbitrary and self-fulfilling rules gmail et al employ.

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