| Google is starting to show a pattern of addressing the concerns of the large players (which themselves are a part of), and ignoring or degrading everyone else's experience. Good luck trying to get predicable deliverability to gmail without your mail being put in the spam box as a small mail sender. Google refuses to even tell you anything about why or why not mail is being delivered unless you send hundreds of messages a day. This is a small personal mailserver, compliant fully with DMARC/DKIM/SPF, has RDNS, reasonably old domain (a few years), IP not and never has been on any blacklist, reputable server provider, has been sending mail to gmail for a few years, is not sending anything except personal mail under my direct control, nothing that could even vaugely be considered commerical or spam of any kind. Google still classifies it as spam, even with repeated clicking of "this is not spam" button by my recepients, after a while it just goes back in the spam folder, and has absolutely no hint at why, or how to change it. To top it off im hearing reports that signing up for google suite for your domain immediately seems to remove this mysterious "fuck you filter", and you no longer get deliverability issues. Ive heard similar rumours about placement in google search results, aswell as stuff like youtube recommendations, if you aren't already in the accepted list of stuff we wanna show you, dont bother even trying. Its a very concerning thing because the outcry about shitty practices targeting the things 95% of people dont see, will be by definition limited, and yet it is these very things that are essential to remaining out under the thumb of parties like Facebook or Google. |
sending emails (if you care about delivery) became very centralized