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Blekko Confirmation Email lands in Gmail Spam
Just wondering if this happened to anyone else, don't have any spam filters, and am running on default gmail settings. Could this be google trying to snuff out a competitor, if so its pretty creepy.
- greglindahl 14y agoA majority of blekko's verify emails get clicked on, and the ones that don't include a fair number of people who give us bogus email addresses instead of not giving one at all. So I don't think there's a big problem overall, and I'm glad you happened to notice!
- Piskvorrr 14y agoAbout 80% of the confirmation e-mails I get land in Gmail Spam - maybe because there's also a lot of actual spam (which looks like confirmation e-mails: short text+complicated link+footer). And IIRC, Google Mail still has a default spam filter for everyone, without you actually creating one. If you look hard enough, it is always possible to find a conspiracy - no matter whether one actually exists. As for me, I do not attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity. GMail has comparatively great spam filters - for a bunch of computers; it still sucks when compared to human ability to detect spam.
- PaulHoule 14y agoGmail's is less bad than others when it comes to eating confirmation messages. I launched a site recently that had deliverability of about 50% for confirmation messages. I pointed my "smart host" to Critsend and things seem to be way better.