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I have a custom domain that uses Gmail as its mail provider (for legacy reasons related to the other users of this domain), and my Gmail account is configured t

I have a custom domain that uses Gmail as its mail provider (for legacy reasons related to the other users of this domain), and my Gmail account is configured to never mark anything as spam and to forward everything to Fastmail. This means that no matter what I do with my email, I can log into the gmail account and see every email I've received for years sitting in my inbox. I don't really recommend this setup, I'd really prefer to cut Google out of the path entirely, but I can't do that without abandoning my email address.

JohnTHaller 6y ago
Gmail and most other providers will 5xx incoming mail they see as spam before it even gets to your spam settings. It's a "feature" on their end to outright block more blatant spam, but it often snags larger senders of legitimate email. Like Patreon.
- lilyball 6y ago
  If it’s catching Patreon then Patreon must be doing something really egregiously wrong, because there’s tons of spam I get to my address that’s exceedingly obvious. And I have no problem receiving other email from Patreon, so I think Patreon really just failed to send the login code email.