On 10/10/2019 13:43, Jaroslaw Rafa wrote:
However, if you announce your e-mail address publicly, by eg. putting it on a website as your contact address, or participating in a mailing list like this one using this address, you are actually inviting people to contact you at this address
Indeed. So anyone using an advertised email address should be checking spam folders regularly. Failure to do so means that they're not really that interested in receiving emails.
This is not Google's fault. It's the fault of the people who publish gmail email addresses and then don't check them properly. If they cared about receiving unsolicited emails, then they'd either (a) use their own mail server with their own rules, or (b) learn to use the email service they've chosen so as to eliminate the chance of false positives.
If Google *blocked* your mail or, worse, silently discarded it, then you may have more of a point, but putting your mail into a spam folder seems a perfectly legitimate action to me, especially given that you've chosen to associate with spammers (albeit, possibly unknowingly).
Again - if you want to solve the problem, stop paying a spammer-friendly company, and look for a new hosting service or a reputable SMTP relay service. There are many out there who take abuse of their services seriously.
You aren't going to get anywhere by arguing that people are being unfair. The last I saw, Google were blocking/filtering 10 million spam messages *A MINUTE*. Yes, you read that right. I can't even imagine that, but that's what they're doing. They have to use lots of tricks to achieve that.
I believe they aim to keep false positives below 0.05% and I believe they're quite good at achieving that. However, 0.05% out of of billions of emails, means that some legitimate ones will be blocked. You need to do what you can to stay out of that 0.05%, so choose a reputable service for sending emails.
Gmail isn't my favourite service for various reasons, but badly blocking legitimate mail isn't one of the reasons. (It is one of the reasons I don't like a certain other big ESP). Gmail has blocked us in the past, but we've understood why and sorted it out. You've been told the probably reason why your mail is being blocked, so you know what you can do about it.
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