Google crumbling under its own weight in yet another area.
Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
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Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#72Glad to see this posted, I got the exact same email this morning: Russian name from a Gmail account, subject that looks just like that (i.e. "long license plate number") and a .htm file. Was very surprised to see it get through GMail's filters.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#73Lately, I've been noticing emails getting flagged as spam that are:
a) replies to emails I sent b) have anything to do with topics I'm actively involved with c) from senders who I have marked as not spam dozens of times
I never used to check the spam filter, now I do almost daily.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#74Yes, I've been getting a bunch for the past week or so.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#75Yes I can like 20 of those per day all to my primary inbox
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#76Yet legitimate mail from my server with valid DKIM, DMARC, SPF, PTR record, decade old domain lands in spam. Good job, AI first Google/Gmail.
Who is to say that it isn't working as intended in building a higher wall around their ad garden? There should be a way for them to accept mail from self hosted users, or even provide some sort of testing tools (perhaps validated by credit card some type of bar to increase accountability? At least an RBL or something) for those who do, but nope.
I am beginning to think that the simplest explanation is the most likely one. Google is just bad at stuff...
If this was all part of some clever conspiracy then it would be, well, more clever...
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#77I'm not using gmail, but am seeing the exact same thing in the last 3-4 weeks with my email provider (Hover). Mine are all loan-related. Marking as spam has no effect.
Yes. Tons of home loan and home warranty spams.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#78Lately, I've been noticing emails getting flagged as spam that are: a) replies to emails I sent b) have anything to do with topics I'm actively involved with c) from senders who I have marked as not spam dozens of times I never used to check the spam filter, now I do almost daily.
SAME. It's awful.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#79I have exactly the opposite problem: tons of legitimate email is getting flagged as Spam by GMail. It's now happening regularly with emails from people in my contacts with whom I regularly exchange messages . Mind-boggling. I know spam filtering is a hard problem, but these are just obvious misses.
If this is company mail you might have a colleague who uses the spam button instead of delete. I once caught my boss doing this (he was not a native English speaker, but absolutely used to communicating in English so it shocked me.)
Hmm so this is indeed a thing. I operate some email servers and often get spam notifications from, say, Hotmail, and the emails are always legitimate. It's like some people don't bother unsubscribing from lists, they just start reporting it as spam hoping it will go away.
Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?
#80Yes. I suddenly just started getting tons and tons of German spam.
I tried Googling for a way to block mail in a language or from a country, but apparently the technology just isn't there to do so(/s). Getting rid of Russian and German mail would completely fix my spam problem.