Has anyone else noticed how gmail dumps messages from new mailservers into the 
spam heap by default?

A bit of a slap in the face after going to all the trouble of setting up my own 
domain and hosting it on my own smtp server.

I can see where it fits into google's panoptic vision of global domination to 
undermine the efforts of independant operators, but this still seems a bit over 
the top.

While I have no interest in salting google's data mine with my personal 
correspondence, unfortunately, many of those with whom I correspond seem 
cheerfully oblivious to the down side of total surveilence. I grow tired of 
telling them to go fish my mail out of their spam folder.

Eventually, if they mark a few of them as not spam, it starts to work as 
expected. Still, I can't help but feel that google is abusing its position of 
market dominance in order to make perfectly standards compliant, well 
configured mail servers look like such a shabby hack that people are really 
better off sticking with gmail and leaving smtp to the experts.

Thoughts?
Work arounds?

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