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How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Post by sbierwagen »

rabidsnail wrote: post #8
recoiledsnake wrote: post #3

Google's spam filter seems to be having more issues these days. I used to ignore the spam filter, but got a reminder email which forced me to check the spam folder, and lo behold there was the email. I always open emails from that person and Gmail marks it as important, I wonder how it could possibly classify it as spam(assuming the email servers remained the same). The funny part was that just a few days prior I rea…

I've been getting increasingly fed up with gmail, but not quite to the point of making me set up exim. Does anybody know of a mail server I can throw on ec2 and forget about?

Many blacklists include all the EC2 addresses: for obvious reasons, they get used to send spam a lot.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Post by notatoad »

niggler wrote: post #12
rabidsnail wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been getting increasingly fed up with gmail, but not quite to the point of making me set up exim. Does anybody know of a mail server I can throw on ec2 and forget about?

I dont think this is a good idea -- if ec2 goes down (as it has in the past) you risk losing email

SMTP doesn't just drop messages if the destination server is unavailable. It'll either get held back at an intermediary server until your server comes up again, or else it will be bounced back to the sender.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Post by raldi »

pearkes wrote: post #27
aidos wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can actually sign in to multiple google accounts and switch between them (at least for email / docs - not analytics / other services). I can't remember exactly how to do it, I think you need to enable multiple sign in on the account first.

They certainly do. I've found that feature to be pretty buggy, personally. Command + tilde is faster than clicking a drop down and waiting for the switch.

What bugs did you run into? I've been doing it for over a year and can't think of any that I've encountered.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Post by DanBC »

rabidsnail wrote: post #8
recoiledsnake wrote: post #3

Google's spam filter seems to be having more issues these days. I used to ignore the spam filter, but got a reminder email which forced me to check the spam folder, and lo behold there was the email. I always open emails from that person and Gmail marks it as important, I wonder how it could possibly classify it as spam(assuming the email servers remained the same). The funny part was that just a few days prior I rea…

I've been getting increasingly fed up with gmail, but not quite to the point of making me set up exim. Does anybody know of a mail server I can throw on ec2 and forget about?

The answer to "Gmail drops some wanted messages into the spam folder" is definitely not "set up exim" nor "set up [insert email server here]".

There's a reason that people running servers at that level (from that time) are called BOFH.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Post by DanBC »

Nux wrote: post #19

You don't even need to do much, GMail top posts by default without a way to disable this retarded behaviour.

> this retarded behaviour.

HN has an international audience. While the word retarded appears to be common in the US it's an offensive slur in other parts of the world; especially the UK.

Please, I'm not telling you not to use it, but I am gently asking you to consider using some other word instead.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Post by paulrademacher »

> To be more efficient, I started forwarding my work email running on Google Apps to my personal email at Gmail. This is pretty common. All of the devs at my previous company handled their email this way. Why log in to two places, right?

This is a terrible practice. Work mail will be full of confidential information which shouldn't be mixed with your personal files, especially after your employment ends.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Post by aprescott »

tghw wrote: post #11

I ran into this problem as well. So, now, as standard practice, when I set up forwarding between GMail accounts, I add a single filter to the account being forwarded: Matches: -96f0f0036730a7d970a678e8f933e8b7 Do this: Never send it to Spam The string is just a random hex string, the minus (-) tells it to match all messages that do not contain this string. No message should ever contain it, so no message should ever…

I specifically tested for this when consolidating various Gmail addresses behind an Apps account, and my fix was similar: a match on * seems to include spam.

It's slightly bizarre that the email forwarding you can configure in settings would not skip all spam checks, and not even indicate as much.

Re: How to use Gmail to destroy your relationship with your investors and customers

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Post by philip1209 »

Does anybody have a suggestion for a simple email forwarding service for random domains? e.g., if I own example.com, is there a simple way with high uptime to forward all incoming email to all addresses to an email account at a separate domain?
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