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What I get out of this is that Microsoft Outlook is a bad webmail service that will mark things as spam even though there is no evidence they are spam. I have
by upofadown 11y ago
What I get out of this is that Microsoft Outlook is a bad webmail service that will mark things as spam even though there is no evidence they are spam.
I have recently seen more or less the same thing implied about Gmail.
So the actual issue seems to be that free webmail services are not that great. Historically free services tend to get worse. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that Outlook and Gmail are degrading in the same way at the same time.
- throwaway7767 11y agoThe problem is centralisation. As most email users move to the 3 or 4 large providers, the incentives for those providers to care about email delivery to the smaller players is reduced. Having run my own mail server for about 20 years now, I can absolutely confirm that this is a big problem and getting worse all the time. Gmail is in my experience the worst. And my IP is on no blacklists as far as I can tell. Mail just gets silently dropped, and I only find out about it when my sister gets confused when I ask her why she hasn't responded to my mail.