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by DanBC 5006 days ago
The answer to "Gmail drops some wanted messages into the spam folder" is definitely not "set up exim" nor "set up [insert email server here]".

There's a reason that people running servers at that level (from that time) are called BOFH.

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  > (from that time)
Are you trying to imply that 'mail servers' are some sort of ancient devices whose era has come and gone?
The days when every company maintained its own mail server are gone (and on the whole we're better off).
As we converge on a handful of major email providers, are we really much better off? Would you be singing the same song of Hotmail a decade ago, or is it just because Google seems to be the Monopoly with a Heart of Gold?
If hotmail gave better service than your typical bigcorp's email servers (which is subjective) I'd be saying the same thing. I'm not too worried about a monopoly on email hosting, just because there's very little lock-in; it's trivial to set up as a new email hosting company, and almost as trivial for companies to migrate.