Mastodawn

Avoid The Hack!May 2, 2023

Is #Gmail killing independent email?

"Is it okay that Gmail has the power to decide whether a business is sending spam or not?"

Gmail has rigged the email game imo. It makes running a self-hosted email server hard, even after properly configuring DKIM, DMARC, and SPF.

#cybersecurity #privacy #technology

https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/gmail-independent-email

Is Gmail killing independent email?

People report that self-hosted emails always end up in Gmail spam. Is there anything Google can do about it?

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Jyrgen N May 2, 2023

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IMO gmail don't kill independent email. I run a mailing list on my own server (with postfix, but my own very simple and AFAIK standards-compliant mailing list software) with about 20 recipients. Every now and then a message bounces for a gmail address. I tell them "get yourself a better email provider" and get on with my life. So far, no one had complained. There is one left with a gmail address.
All in all, gmail just isn't important enough to change what I do.

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Jyrgen N

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Because it still is work, and some responsibility for the handful of users I have, I have thought of giving up my one private email server and using a commercial service instead. But the only one with the right feature set I have seen so far is @fastmail, and they are in Five Eyes countries. If they were in the EU or in Switzerland, I'd throw my money at them in an instant. Fastmail is brilliant, but sadly in the wrong place from my POV.