[jeffparsons]

> you don't think engineers who build web crawlers cannot build email classifiers?

We're talking about Google here. It doesn't matter that they have lots of clever people working there; they still occasionally get/guess things wrong, and if you're the unlucky too-small-to-even-notice outfit that happens to get squished by Google today, there's seldom much you can do about it.

[darylteo]

Exactly... Outlook by Microsoft is notorious for being very heavy handed with emails, requiring sites to put warnings to users to whitelist their domains so that they receive invoices or notifications.

[explaininjs]

At this point with outlook it’s pretty much guaranteed that any important “you just paid a ton of money here is the asset you bought” email (show/bus/etc tickets) will go straight to spam. I check spam before I look in the non-“Focused” inbox.

[amluto]

If I send an email to some business, from the Outlook UI, and they reply, Outlook usually classifies the reply as spam. It’s hard to imagine less spammy email than that.

[latchkey]

I'd just rename the spam folder to "Inbox-2" or something. ;-)