> I'm actually pretty happy this whole conversation is starting to gain more traction.
This exactly. I've been a Gmail user since the day when they've required an invitation in order to signup, and I'm not quite a Google hater, either, but it's extremely disappointing to see the number of people who simply defend Google against the wrongdoing irrespective of whether or not the complainant has a valid complaint, like in this very case.
What happened to the whole notion of believing the victims? Why no matter how hard you try to explain your setup, and the things you've tried, and that all the automated tests pass, that you still get blamed to be the culprit for the issues you experience when dealing with someone who has a monopoly on the service at stake, instead of considering the possibility that maybe it's Google Mail having the monopoly on email that's an issue here.
Oh, I do think that Google is absolutely more aggressive than they probably should be on filtering... On the flip side, there's very little other choice. The VAST majority of email comes from a handful of hosts/providers and everything else has a much higher noise to signal ratio and gets much more scrutinized period.
Also, if you aren't sending a lot of mail, consider relaying outbound through mailgun or a similar service (I used to use sendgrid myself). Nearly zero issues when doing this on the lowest level paid account. That said, inbound spam was so painful to deal with I just gave it all up.
This exactly. I've been a Gmail user since the day when they've required an invitation in order to signup, and I'm not quite a Google hater, either, but it's extremely disappointing to see the number of people who simply defend Google against the wrongdoing irrespective of whether or not the complainant has a valid complaint, like in this very case.
What happened to the whole notion of believing the victims? Why no matter how hard you try to explain your setup, and the things you've tried, and that all the automated tests pass, that you still get blamed to be the culprit for the issues you experience when dealing with someone who has a monopoly on the service at stake, instead of considering the possibility that maybe it's Google Mail having the monopoly on email that's an issue here.