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Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?

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Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?

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Post by everybodyknows »

mmerlin wrote: post #12
prettychill wrote: post #6

I've never had spam issues with gmail until about 3-4 weeks ago..now I get spam every single day and I always mark as spam + block, but haven't seen any improvement. My fastmail account has been a great alternative, but for many reasons I can't totally drop the gmail account

Yes I reckon they overcooked the algorithm since about 3-4 weeks ago I noticed a very large jump in legit email being false-flagged as spam by gmail. Even many emails from GitHub issues tracker were shoved into Spam erroneously. The "not spam" button is not working very well so far this year and I'm clicking the same kind of email dozens of times as Not Spam but this is flaky and not a reliable method. What DOES work…

I set up forwarding from my main Gmail address to an alias at Fastmail. This gives me a backup in case I get locked out of one account or the other.

Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?

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Post by Froedlich »

donkarma wrote: post #9

these are all coming from gmail accounts aren't they

I have a Gmail account. I haven't been able to access it for at least four years. Google locked me out because I couldn't satisfy its demand for "two-factor authentication", which apparently to Google means "send a text message to a cellular phone."

It's not any great loss, I just kept it as an alternate address for when I needed to send email to someone (or vice versa) and over-enthusiastic mail admins decided to "fight spam" by blocking entire top-level domains or countries.

Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?

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Post by hammyhavoc »

hakunin wrote: post #14

This is spooky. I just read this post, cmd+tabbed to my mail app, refreshed, and got a version of this exact email. I never have problems with gmail+spam otherwise.

Not that spooky. Was it a Gmail account? If so, you know the answer as to why: something about this particular email meant that it wasn't caught by the spam filter.

Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?

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Post by hammyhavoc »

Froedlich wrote: post #22
donkarma wrote: post #9

these are all coming from gmail accounts aren't they

I have a Gmail account. I haven't been able to access it for at least four years. Google locked me out because I couldn't satisfy its demand for "two-factor authentication", which apparently to Google means "send a text message to a cellular phone." It's not any great loss, I just kept it as an alternate address for when I needed to send email to someone (or vice versa) and over-enthusiastic mail admins decided to "f…

Which country are/were you in that was getting blocked?

Re: Ask HN: Spammers got smarter or Gmail is no longer good?

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Post by ksec »

boring_twenties wrote: post #7

I almost never get spam outside of the spam folder. What I get instead is that half of the messages in the spam folder are not spam. This is actually even worse than just not having spam filtering. I still have to pick the spam out manually and ignore/delete it, but now I have to check two folders every day instead of one.

Which is some of the reason why I no longer use email much apart from Work settings.
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