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No more of your filters. But your mail host is still filtering out things and deciding which emails you will see and which you will not. Even freedom loving Pro
by superkuh 2y ago
No more of your filters. But your mail host is still filtering out things and deciding which emails you will see and which you will not. Even freedom loving Proton mail does it. Gmail and MSOffice365 are terrible about silently dropping legitimate emails.
It's not easy to set up but a personal mailserver is the only way to know you'll actually receive mail people send you. Getting other mailservers to accept your mail is different and harder problem, of course.
- jeffbee 2y agoTo my knowledge Gmail never "silently drops" anything. Every message is either delivered, rejected with the appropriate SMTP failure codes, or bounced with a non-delivery report in case of technical failure to promptly deliver.
- superkuh 2y agoDuring the Solarwinds event I saw them silently drop emails. During normal times they simple accept the mail and refuse to show it to the user (marking it "spam" and hiding it in non-inbox folders); a "shadow drop". Far worse than doing what is expected (if it really were spam, which it usually isn't) which is to refuse the email following standard protocols.
- jeffbee 2y agoWhich "they" are we talking about? Microsoft for sure drops emails silently without delivering them.
- superkuh 2y agoGoogle's GMail (re: shadow drops). But re: silent drops I am specifically referring to Google's Gmail platform as was providing email hosting service for all noaa.gov email addresses and the silent dropping of emails sent to noaa.gov.
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