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>Their spam filter has a ton of false positives and those emails don't get forwarded to my real address. This is very interesting to me. I've used Gmail for 10
by mitchdoogle 6y ago
>Their spam filter has a ton of false positives and those emails don't get forwarded to my real address.
This is very interesting to me. I've used Gmail for 10 years now and I've found the spam filter to be nearly impeccable. I can't recall a single false positive. I can't even recall a single false negative, though I am moderately careful about who I provide my email to.
Now I'm left wondering if most people think about Gmail more like me or more like you...
- jpindar 6y agoI get a ton of false positives. Probably more false positives than actual spam.
- dleslie 6y agoI check the spam folder weekly and always find something important in it.
- DangitBobby 6y agoMy experience mirrors yours.
- insertnickname 6y agoYou won't necessarily be able to know if there was a false positive. Google might reject it or, worse, accept the message and not deliver it to you.
- peteri 6y agoAnyone like me who sends maybe 10 emails a month to gmail. I'm in their spam sin bin since a spammer managed to find an old test account on my SMTP server with a weak password and spammed the world for a day or so a few years ago. The problem is that I don't send enough emails to get out of the bin. This isn't a problem google cares about, small senders with no reputation are basically screwed. I can deliver to gmail hosted accounts I've got a relationship with (personal & my own work address) but I can't reliably send to other email addresses at work.