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very funny, right after I saw this, I decided to check my spam folder just to see if anything important has been filtered out, and I saw an email sent by google
by billconan 11y ago
very funny, right after I saw this, I decided to check my spam folder just to see if anything important has been filtered out, and I saw an email sent by google marked as a spam:
this email is sent by google when logging in google account from a new machine. they tag their own email as spam ...
Hi xxx,
Your Google Account xxx@gmail.com was just used to sign in from Chrome on Windows.
Don't recognize this activity?
Review your recently used devices now.
Why are we sending this? We take security very seriously and we want to keep you in the loop on important actions in your account.
We were unable to determine whether you have used this browser or device with your account before. This can happen when you sign in for the first time on a new computer, phone or browser, when you use your browser's incognito or private browsing mode or clear your cookies, or when somebody else is accessing your account.
Best,
The Google Accounts team
- notahacker 11y agoAt least their filters are as impartial as they're inaccurate and overly aggressive...
- Zancarius 11y agoI wonder how that'd work in an anti-trust case? "Your honor, clearly you can see that our services are so impartial as to flag our own email..." Something tells me that probably wouldn't work.
- afarrell 11y agoIf yahoo sued them? I don't see why it wouldn't. It may not convince an expert witness, but why wouldn't it convince a jury?
- Zancarius 11y agoYeah, good point. I guess I was feeling unnecessarily cynical. If I were on the jury, I'd definitely buy it. Their counsel would have to really bone up the argument that it was such equal treatment, they were flagging their own messages. And the prosecution would have to really stretch things, probably entering into conspiratorial territory in order to make a case. Then again, I've found myself perplexed by jury decisions on tech-related cases more than once. Although having sat on a jury, I can see how such decisions might be made.
- cortesoft 11y agoHaha, I did the exact same thing and found the exact same messages. I thought maybe they were fake, but looking into them they look legit. Good job, Google!!
- billconan 11y agoYes, my first reaction was also thinking those were indeed fake google emails. but I checked the logging in time and the from email address, they are legit (I got two emails like this filtered this week). those emails were sent from no-reply@accounts.I.google.com
- billconan 11y agowait, there is a line on top of that email saying: Why is this message in Spam? It has a from address in accounts.l.google.com but has failed accounts.l.google.com's required tests for authentication. what are required tests for authentication?
- pki 11y agoDKIM, SPF, etc?
- mike_hearn 11y agoThat sounds like a bug on Google's end.
- meridional 11y agoNot long ago, I found in my spam mailbox several emails sent by Google's recruiters (from @google.com domain). I was, at the time, going through their interview process.
- ThePowerOfDirge 11y agoI lost a job application because the interview invitation ended up into my spam filter. Thanks, Google Accounts team!
- tempestn 11y agoAnother great one is when you're having a conversation with someone, and after several back and forth emails, the next one goes to spam. Sent from the same device, same headers, etc. Presumably it triggered some keywords. But I mean, come on! Obviously if I've replied to this person four times in a row, their fifth email is not spam. I realize that everything takes time to implement, and developer time is not infinite, but this one seems like pretty low-hanging fruit.