Don't blame Gmail: Blame SPAMmers who abuse the system for their profit. Blame our lawmakers who appear to be very lax in regulating SPAM. (In all forms, not

Don't blame Gmail: Blame SPAMmers who abuse the system for their profit. Blame our lawmakers who appear to be very lax in regulating SPAM. (In all forms, not just email.) Blame the design of email that allows anyone to email anyone at any time for anything. Blame the people who think that AI is capable of sorting out the good emails from the bad ones. Gmail's incentives are to keep customers, and a big part of that is blocking SPAM. Unfortunately, running your own email server is always going to be a cat-and-mouse game with regard to making sure that you're following whatever best practices are needed to make sure that you're not a SPAMmer.