It’s interesting - my gmail spambox is mostly accurate, but I get actual important emails there a few times a month. I’ve received real emails from my bank there before! I’ve received emails from Google services there before!!
On the other hand, I frequently get obvious spam emails in my inbox, including from one address that I weekly received a spam email. It was a very obvious email (“increase the size of your member with this one quick trick”), and each time I would mark it as spam, but Gmail never realized that that address was spam. I eventually just had to create my own filter.
I’m not sure what’s up with it, but they need to rethink their approach.
No, I don't feel the same way about Junk email. I can go through it at my leisure and there's history there. Carriers potentially blocking calls is just some black box deciding what's "safe" for me.
There are issues with mail servers being blacklisted and they can't send emails to me. But there's actual visibility to that. You can look up mail server IP's and get to the root issue of why you're blacklisted.
Honestly I'd rather the government focus on the endless junk mail I receive to my home than anything. I spend more time sorting that rather than hitting decline on my phone.
The email that makes it into your Junk folder are just the “probably spam” ones. Email providers are outright blocking “definitely spam” messages, where the decision is being made by a black box. There’s no history you can check for those, and the decisions are made in a much more complicated way than just checking an IP blocklist.
Totally. I recently set up email on a few domains, backed by protonmail. Most of them work just fine. But my internationalized domain -- a .com in fact -- can't send email to Gmail, it is wholly rejected (I get a bounce-back failure notice, and the email never gets to even the recipient's spam folder).
There doesn't seem to be any way to tell Gmail that this email is fine, in fact it's coming from me.
Meanwhile countless horrific obvious spam gets through to my gmail just fine, much of it straight to my Inbox.
On the other hand, I frequently get obvious spam emails in my inbox, including from one address that I weekly received a spam email. It was a very obvious email (“increase the size of your member with this one quick trick”), and each time I would mark it as spam, but Gmail never realized that that address was spam. I eventually just had to create my own filter.
I’m not sure what’s up with it, but they need to rethink their approach.