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A lot of large enterprises using GSuite route their mail through external systems that provide various dubious services and which often screw up the spam classi
by shereadsthenews 8y ago
A lot of large enterprises using GSuite route their mail through external systems that provide various dubious services and which often screw up the spam classification by having dirty VIPs or being open spam relays etc. Perhaps your organization was infected by such a thing. Otherwise having a threaded message or a sender in your address book is a virtually guaranteed saving throw against spam classification.
- mehrdadn 8y agoYou made me go back and check the email I had in mind. I'm not sure to be honest. What I do see is that it soft-failed SPF: > Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=softfail (google.com: domain of transitioning {user@domain} does not designate {IP} as permitted sender) So I guess you can use that to blame the domain owner, but I feel like the fact that it was a reply to my own email should've been enough to allow it through? Moreover, there are other emails around that time that weren't replies but still softfailed SPF, and they were still let through.
- shereadsthenews 8y agoYour domain needs to: include:_spf.google.com ... in order to send outbound mail from Gmail effectively. Many people don’t realize that Gmail sends mail to itself over SMTP, not some special magic protocol, and it doesn’t exempt itself from SPF checks and whatnot.
- mehrdadn 8y agoThey seem to have put up that SPF record now, so I can only presume they weren't aware of this at the time.