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When connecting your email client to your Gmail account, Google runs a "caching" service that helps make sure you don't get messages from senders it determines are bad and that emails are "ordered properly" - according to its discretion.

You can run your own "caching service" and connect your email client to that. In this case, that means a fully alternative IMAP provider other than Gmail, because Google's "caching service" is so overwrought at this point that it is barely recognizable as the open protocol it started on.

Sure, someone can "speak valid email" to you via your Gmail account, but that doesn't mean you'll necessarily see it.

"Caching". A harmless performance improvement that definitely doesn't destroy open protocols in order to benefit the DAU and bottom line of centralizers (and besides, you can always just run your own!)

semisol 2mo ago

msexchange is still less fucked than the horrendous mess that is gmail in terms of “How Likely Is Your Self Hosted Mail To Be Marked Spam?”

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vinney...axkl 2mo ago

Let them mark self-hosted email as spam.

Just like the nostr notes I post will still be seen by readers who kept the thread (but perhaps filtered out of Primal one day), any self-hosted emails will be read by readers who remember what email is.

semisol 2mo ago

I only had 1 email get marked as spam because the domain was too new. After that none of it got marked as spam by MSExchange. It is surprisingly still interoperable for send/receive.

(I have a similar policy on my own mailserver.)

Google kept marking my multiple-year domain as spam just because it was self hosted.