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0 pointsGordonS4y ago0 comments

Seriously? I actually think gmail's spam filtering is brilliant - I probably average less than a single spam email a year that it doesn't catch.

Contrast that with every corporate email spam filter I've ever been subject to, which vary from "shit" to "OK", and Gmail is completely in another league.

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xhkkffbf4y ago· 1 in thread

My problem with Gmail is the false positives. (Or is it negatives?) They routinely send too much to the spam box and others tell me they have the same experience.

The worst is when they take email from one Google hosted domain and send it to spam in another Google hosted domain, even though the email didn't leave their network at all.

Still, I agree that the overall level is pretty good and hard to duplicate.

jeffbee4y ago

> even though the email didn't leave their network at all.

FYI gmail treats all of its children equally. Mail from one Google user to another is subject to the exact same treatment as mail received via SMTP (and, indeed, Gmail sends traffic to itself over SMTP). If you study the headers of messages in Gmail, you can form a picture of how they allocate and use the virtual IPs.

bluedino4y ago

I get them every day.

https://imgur.com/a/wXCocLd

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