#GMail is harmful to e-mail ecosystem; its antispam blocking policy matches too many valid messages as spam.
It blocked LastPass email leak warning email, because it contained "a link" to a leaked site.
It blocked an e-mail from goverment agency addressed directly to me.
It discriminates all non-gmail servers, and it's pretty much impossible to own a private SMTP server these days, because GMail will classify everything as spam.
It's not how e-mail should work.
Consider dropping GMail.
@antekone Another horrible related thing that's starting to happen a lot is that many email sysadmins are getting lazy when it comes to spam set up and simply rejecting all incoming messages from any mail servers that aren't google, ms etc which helps to cement their monopoly even more 😞
@lschuermann @antekone I've been running my own mail server for about 15yr now, and I'm finding that sending to G,MS etc servers is actually working very well nowadays, but you do have to ensure you're config is rock solid including rDNS, IPv6, SPF, DKIM and DMARC. Use a tool like mxtoolbox.com to ensure your server's IP is not blacklisted anywhere, and a tool such as mail-tester.com to analyse and report on the email your server sends.
@aran @antekone @lschuermann you must be using a static IP, which makes a huge difference. Of course by bending over backwards to send to #MACFANG corps, you end up supporting them. I will not, so I run my mail server on a dynamic IP and refuse to email MS/Gmail/Yahoo recipients. I tell them get an ESP that works if they want mail from me.
@lschuermann @antekone @aran The only way that I'm willing to email a #MACFANG user is by old fashioned #FAX. If they have a fax#, then I can send a fax to them without touching their freedom-hostile tech giant, in which case their FAX provider sends a digital image of my msg to the MS/Google/Yahoo server.