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It might not be related, but I've been seeing some spam in my gmail inbox in the past month. It seems that something has upset the balance. For example, this went to my inbox: From: [...] Baby Subject: HELLO HANDSOME Body: HOW ARE YOU DOING
very funny, right after I saw this, I decided to check my spam folder just to see if anything important has been filtered out, and I saw an email sent by google marked as a spam: this email is sent by google when logging in google account from a new machine. they tag their own email as spam ... Hi xxx, Your Google Account xxx@gmail.com was just used to sign in from Chrome on Windows. Don't recognize this activity? Re…
At least their filters are as impartial as they're inaccurate and overly aggressive...
"Your honor, clearly you can see that our services are so impartial as to flag our own email..."
Something tells me that probably wouldn't work.
very funny, right after I saw this, I decided to check my spam folder just to see if anything important has been filtered out, and I saw an email sent by google marked as a spam: this email is sent by google when logging in google account from a new machine. they tag their own email as spam ... Hi xxx, Your Google Account xxx@gmail.com was just used to sign in from Chrome on Windows. Don't recognize this activity? Re…
Haha, I did the exact same thing and found the exact same messages. I thought maybe they were fake, but looking into them they look legit. Good job, Google!!
those emails were sent from no-reply@accounts.I.google.com
I could see 20% false positives on spam for Linus equating to 0.1% of false positives across the board since I suspect the people emailing Linus are 200 times more likely to be running their own mail server than the general public.
> I suspect the people emailing Linus are 200 times more likely to be running their own mail server than the general public. Assuming non-gmail servers are spammers is a pretty epic fail.
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Haha, I did the exact same thing and found the exact same messages. I thought maybe they were fake, but looking into them they look legit. Good job, Google!!
Yes, my first reaction was also thinking those were indeed fake google emails. but I checked the logging in time and the from email address, they are legit (I got two emails like this filtered this week). those emails were sent from no-reply@accounts.I.google.com
Why is this message in Spam? It has a from address in accounts.l.google.com but has failed accounts.l.google.com's required tests for authentication.
what are required tests for authentication?
I could see 20% false positives on spam for Linus equating to 0.1% of false positives across the board since I suspect the people emailing Linus are 200 times more likely to be running their own mail server than the general public.
It seems entirely likely that Google is weighting whether something comes from a private mail server very heavily, and Linus, being who he is, gets a lot of email from private servers.
Not saying this isn't a problem, but it probably doesn't affect 99% of email users.
Google recently posted "The mail you want, not the spam you don’t": http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-s...
Google recently posted "The mail you want, not the spam you don’t": http://gmailblog.blogspot.de/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-s...
I really wonder how these preferences are reflected if someone hasn't been using spam filters much. I get maybe at most a dozen spam emails escaped a year, and the rest of the emails go through (all mailing lists... I am on a lot of mailing lists) so I get about 50+ emails per day from just DL. So I barely ever need to mark something as spam, or even more something to another folder, so how does Google know what's my preference? It sounds like people who don't actively mark spams are less likely affected...