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gmail is effectively block by default these days, unless Google has some reason to not block your mail, it will be spamboxed.

by throwaway2048 6y ago

bachmeier 6y ago
True. It's a mistake to do a job search using gmail. Interview invitations and job offers are going to go straight to spam.
- alyandon 6y ago
  Sending email to Google is always a crap shoot and I still find to this day that sometimes when I send email contains logs to my own account using my own account credentials it'll end up being classified as spam. Right now, Google is refusing to deliver email from logwatch - giving me the "Message rejected. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/69585 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/69585 for more information." so those are going to /dev/null with no recourse to fix it because Google literally doesn't like the content of the email. The fact that I can't hit a button and tell Google that yes indeed I'm not trying to spam myself is ridiculous.
vbezhenar 6y ago
That was the case for me few years ago. But I decided to set up mailserver once more recently and Gmail to my surprise accepted my mails. I configured everything mentioned in article. That said, my outcoming mail traffic is almost non-existent outside of few test emails, LoL.
hedora 6y ago
I have an old, but frequently used email address that got force-moved from a pass through relay to gmail. After setting gmail to forward everything, I noticed it was sending 33% of my legitimate email to spam. They don’t let you disable the spam filter, but you can set up an escoteric filter that prevents it from actually putting stuff in spam. I honestly don’t understand how people cope with gmail. Fastmail is cheap and orders of magnitude better.
- mulmen 6y ago
  I created my gmail account in 2004 I think. Things were different back then. Now there's just 16 years of momentum preventing me from switching. I like the idea of hosting my own email but even if I get around to doing that I will still need a backup. Fastmail is probably where I will go.
- Sami_Lehtinen 6y ago
  With Outlook you can't unfortunately do that. Create rules, which would un-spam mail. Because filters aren't applied to spam emails at all.

gmail is effectively block by default these days, unless Google has some reason to not block your mail, it will be spamboxed.

bachmeier 6y ago

True. It's a mistake to do a job search using gmail. Interview invitations and job offers are going to go straight to spam.

alyandon 6y ago
Sending email to Google is always a crap shoot and I still find to this day that sometimes when I send email contains logs to my own account using my own account credentials it'll end up being classified as spam. Right now, Google is refusing to deliver email from logwatch - giving me the "Message rejected. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/69585 https://support.google.com/mail/answer/69585 for more information." so those are going to /dev/null with no recourse to fix it because Google literally doesn't like the content of the email. The fact that I can't hit a button and tell Google that yes indeed I'm not trying to spam myself is ridiculous.

vbezhenar 6y ago

That was the case for me few years ago. But I decided to set up mailserver once more recently and Gmail to my surprise accepted my mails. I configured everything mentioned in article. That said, my outcoming mail traffic is almost non-existent outside of few test emails, LoL.

hedora 6y ago

I have an old, but frequently used email address that got force-moved from a pass through relay to gmail. After setting gmail to forward everything, I noticed it was sending 33% of my legitimate email to spam. They don’t let you disable the spam filter, but you can set up an escoteric filter that prevents it from actually putting stuff in spam. I honestly don’t understand how people cope with gmail. Fastmail is cheap and orders of magnitude better.

mulmen 6y ago
I created my gmail account in 2004 I think. Things were different back then. Now there's just 16 years of momentum preventing me from switching. I like the idea of hosting my own email but even if I get around to doing that I will still need a backup. Fastmail is probably where I will go.
Sami_Lehtinen 6y ago
With Outlook you can't unfortunately do that. Create rules, which would un-spam mail. Because filters aren't applied to spam emails at all.