On Tuesday 28 April 2026 04:54:13 pm Joe wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:40:40 +0000 > Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 09:17:49PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: > > > On Tue, 2026-04-28 at 18:03 +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > > > gmail often errs on the side of not accepting email or sending it > > > > to spam folder, even when the sender is also from gmail. > > > > > > Worse, it accepts mail & then doesn’t deliver it (sometimes not > > > even to the Spam folder). It’s just not a reliable service to use, > > > period. > > > > A Google employee on the "mailop" mailing list once said that there is > > absolutely no intentional way for gmail to silently discard an email, > > unless a user with a Workspaces account has added filtering rules to > > do that. > > > > On the other hand, as someone whose business sends out invoices by > > email, I have had recipients at gmail.com swear that they only paid > > late because "we never received the email", despite me showing Exim > > logs where gmail accepted it. > > > > So I honestly do not know who to believe on that particular point. > > > > > If they want reliable e-mail, people should move to other e-mail > > > solutions instead. > > > > I can only assume that it's not actually that important for most > > users, and they would rather occasionally lose email and blame it on > > gmail than actually take some action to improve matters. > > > > "Anything free is worth what you pay for it" >
TANSTAAFL! If you're not paying for it, then YOU are the product. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
