I have a Google Apps account from an organization I belong to. I have it set up to forward everything to my personal Gmail account.
Every so often -- from one to a dozen times a month -- a forwarded message gets rejected as spam by my Gmail account. Note I said rejected. (Not found in my Spam folder.) The error message might be something like "501 Spam Blocked - psmtp". Some of these messages are commercial emails from one or another email lists I subscribe to. But the last one was an email sent by a friend, from his Gmail account. Why does Google block emails rather than letting them go into my Spam folder? Why would Google block a message sent from another Gmail account, which contains no spam and as far as I can tell, nothing that looks like spam? The only unusual thing I saw, was that it was missing a Subject line. It seems to me, Google used to take pride in the fact that they DIDN'T block spam, but rather let it go into our spam folders where we could decide what to do with it. I really do not like the fact that Google blocks emails, let alone emails that are not spam. That makes them much worse than the competition they were supposed to be superior to. Andy -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
