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Re: Ask HN: Gmail having spam problems for anybody else?

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Post by khaki54 » Sat, Feb 04, 2023, 3:36 PM UTC

pifm_guy wrote: post #36

khaki54 wrote: post #35

It seems like they string together a whole bunch of evasions. 1. insert a bunch of antispam headers like they've been "ok'd" by microsoft 2. Large sections of the decoded message are in french, sometimes even if the message appears to be russian 3. They pass DKIM 4. All the links use URL shorteners, but that contain unencoded special characters that probably break any attempt at following the links 5. I think this is…

All of those things look pretty 'fixable' in the game of cat and mouse ...

You would think so. Some of the messages sit in my inbox for an hour, trigger the "important message" feature so I get a notification, then gets moved to spam when google gets more info

Re: Ask HN: Gmail having spam problems for anybody else?

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Post by getpost » Sat, Feb 04, 2023, 4:16 PM UTC

For me there's no increase in spam delivered to my inbox.

But, for years, emails from regular correspondents are marked as spam. I have to make rules to ensure I get non-spam emails.

Gmail doesn't seem to learn from interactive choices. Did it ever? Emails I manually designate as spam aren't considered spam in the future.

Re: Ask HN: Gmail having spam problems for anybody else?

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Post by peter_d_sherman » Sat, Feb 04, 2023, 9:39 PM UTC

You're not alone!

I've seen this effect as well!

For some reason, of late, Gmail seems to be less successful in blocking spam emails than it historically has been...

Not sure why exactly that is -- other posters seem to have a better understanding of the root causes of the phenomenon than I do -- but one thing is for sure, and that is that you're not alone!