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by secabeen 1384 days ago
Part of the problem is silent deliverability issues. You can send to someone @gmail.com that you've never messaged before and it won't get rejected. It will probably end up in their Junk folder. You don't know it, they don't know it, and unless they check, which many people don't, it will be as if you never sent it.
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>You can send to someone @gmail.com that you've never messaged before and it won't get rejected. It will probably end up in their Junk folder.

That happens even if you send from @gmail to @gmail. Well, it happened to me not long ago.

But I've mostly been using lesser known email providers and I haven't noticed any problems.