I currently run my small business almost entirely with an email list. And most of my customers use Gmail. For awhile there were times where Gmail just dropped my messages entirely for only one or two Gmail users a week. Plenty of my weekly messages went to my customers' Gmail spam folders but these couple of messages a week just totally disappeared.
On Tue, May 5, 2026 at 1:19 PM Roderick <[email protected]> wrote: > Am Di., 5. Mai 2026 um 13:59 Uhr schrieb Jonas Bechtel <[email protected]>: > > > On the other hand you propose to use gmail; but by using gmail you put > up a barrier so that self hosters cannot write to you. > > gmail makes with mails sent from my self hosting server what Apple > does with your provider: put the mail in the spam folder of the > recipient in their accounts. > > Self hosters can send to my gmail account: I read from time to time > the spam folder in gmail. The problem you mention is not existent. > > But if I send from my server to a gmail account, there is the risk > that the recipient do not see the spam folder and my mail be ignored. > > Recommending not to use gmail or applemail is sure a very good thing, > but does not solve the problem, thousands of millions of possible > recipients will still use them. > > Rodrigo > >
