[prettychill]

I've never had spam issues with gmail until about 3-4 weeks ago..now I get spam every single day and I always mark as spam + block, but haven't seen any improvement.

My fastmail account has been a great alternative, but for many reasons I can't totally drop the gmail account

[mmerlin]

Yes I reckon they overcooked the algorithm since about 3-4 weeks ago I noticed a very large jump in legit email being false-flagged as spam by gmail.

Even many emails from GitHub issues tracker were shoved into Spam erroneously.

The "not spam" button is not working very well so far this year and I'm clicking the same kind of email dozens of times as Not Spam but this is flaky and not a reliable method.

What DOES work as a manual patch to fix this, is create a Filter for a domain or email address you trust and tick the filter option to Never Mark as Spam.

Time to leave Gmail anyway...

I've just finished reading about the process before I begin moving a dozen grandfathered personal and my SMB client domains from gmail over to Fastmail.

Fastmail is going to be much better value than gmail (once these previously grandfathered free domains are no longer free with gmail any more).

Fastmail Seive plus Dropbox integration looks really powerful and I'm keen to try it.

Fastmail Reseller Account is the practical way forward for a better value feature-set.

Moving DNS hosting to Fastmail also...

[everybodyknows]

I set up forwarding from my main Gmail address to an alias at Fastmail. This gives me a backup in case I get locked out of one account or the other.