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Google's spam filtering in general is abominable. For years they even managed to flag mail from some of their own services, like Analytics, as spam. Way too man
by makeitsuckless 12y ago
Google's spam filtering in general is abominable. For years they even managed to flag mail from some of their own services, like Analytics, as spam. Way too many false positives for main stream services that send perfectly ordinary decent emails in general.
On the flip side, the spam filter seems to be very US-centric, allowing a lot of spam through my local ISP's spam filter does catch.
Finally the lack of control over the spam filtering is ridiculous if you compare it to what many ordinary ISP's offer.
- coliveira 12y agoI think gmail spam filters were OK at the beginning, because spam was so blatant at the time. Nowadays we have both more use of commercial services in valid email, and spam became more sophisticated. As a result, whatever they used to do is just not enough to flag email with high certainty.
- jacquesm 12y agoI can actually see the point of the analytics messages being labelled as spam. That's precisely what it is usually.
- cpncrunch 12y agoBut it's not technically spam, as you have actually signed up for the analytics account. Perhaps this illustrates the reason why it is tagged as spam: a lot of people just hit the 'mark as spam'. The irony is that most of the spam that gets through my spam filter comes from gmail.