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Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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Gmail's Chat now has a feature to forward an individual message to your inbox. I kept clicking on that feature and all the forwards from Google were in the Gmail Spam folder. Gargh.

That just sounds like poor cooperation between teams.

Yes, and this has happened in the past, where Google emails ended up in the spam folder even for users who never marked them as spam. They should’ve learned from that already.

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> Then for every email interaction with a 3rd party you make a unique address Does that work for you? Have you caught many companies sharing your address? I’ve been making unique addresses for a decade, and it has been a complete failure. I haven’t caught any companies sharing them, and it hasn’t stopped spam in the slightest. I’m not sure where spammers get my mail email address from, but they do, and so far I’m not…

Yep I've noticed a few, most of the breaches were disclosed to the public which is good. I've stopped using those services so I've just send them straight to trash now as they get non stop spam. Before setting up a catch all domain I had 3 distinct email addresses I used as high/medium/low priority which helped, but its much simpler with the catch all domain as it goes into the same inbox, just with different "To:" a…

I actually have a rule in my work email that tosses everything that contains the word "unsubscribe" and where I am the sole recipient. Hasn't done me wrong for years, as far as I know.

Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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YES! I posted about this two weeks ago, one person agreed but the post never got any traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28437472 I haven't heard anything about this when I asked colleagues / IRL friends... I wonder what is going on over at Google

I too have been seeing this the last couple weeks, sorry to see I'm not the only one!

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Yep I've noticed a few, most of the breaches were disclosed to the public which is good. I've stopped using those services so I've just send them straight to trash now as they get non stop spam. Before setting up a catch all domain I had 3 distinct email addresses I used as high/medium/low priority which helped, but its much simpler with the catch all domain as it goes into the same inbox, just with different "To:" a…

I actually have a rule in my work email that tosses everything that contains the word "unsubscribe" and where I am the sole recipient. Hasn't done me wrong for years, as far as I know.

That's actually brilliant. Wish I'd thought of it!

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Yep I've noticed a few, most of the breaches were disclosed to the public which is good. I've stopped using those services so I've just send them straight to trash now as they get non stop spam. Before setting up a catch all domain I had 3 distinct email addresses I used as high/medium/low priority which helped, but its much simpler with the catch all domain as it goes into the same inbox, just with different "To:" a…

I actually have a rule in my work email that tosses everything that contains the word "unsubscribe" and where I am the sole recipient. Hasn't done me wrong for years, as far as I know.

> as far as I know

Literally everyone claiming they never miss emails in spam, never have delivery issues with their custom domains or mailservers, etc

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Life pro tip: most recruiters can't write emails that look like they came from humans rather than spambots. If you're actively looking for a job, check all your spam folders daily. I can't tell you how many actual job leads have ended up in mine.

Also, recruiters sends large numbers of similar emails so they look like a spammer to the filters. Then if people who get them just mark them a spam rather than deleting or responding, the problem is compounded.

Depending on your definition of spam, the recruiters might actually be sending spam. I once had a recruiter try to hire me for the company I was already working at and had clearly indicated on my Linkedin...

Re: Ask HN: Are you also getting extremely obvious spam bypassing Gmail's filters?

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I actually have a rule in my work email that tosses everything that contains the word "unsubscribe" and where I am the sole recipient. Hasn't done me wrong for years, as far as I know.

> as far as I know Literally everyone claiming they never miss emails in spam, never have delivery issues with their custom domains or mailservers, etc

You know you can have a reliable custom domain hosted by companies like fastmail right?
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