[RndTbl] Gmail spam filtering super-aggressive lately

[Hartmut W Sager]

Oh, and all 4 of Alberto's postings of the last 18 hours "reliably" went to
my Gmail spam.  :(

Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331


On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 00:55, Hartmut W Sager <hwsager at marityme.net> wrote:

> > If I tell mailman to send me a copy too,
> > then I'll always get 2 copies.
>
> Except if you're using Gmail as your infrastructure (like I am).  Gmail
> only posts the message once when it recognizes the unique Message-ID as
> duplicated, even if the multiple messages come into "To" and/or "cc" via
> different target e-mail addresses (which is often my case).
>
> I hate to make Gmail look good, especially when I started this "bash
> Gmail" thread, but hey, they do a few things right.  (Like labels!)
>
> Hartmut W Sager - Tel +1-204-339-8331
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Mar 2020 at 23:18, Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca> wrote:
>
>> Oh, I see why the mailing lists sometimes default to replying to the
>> list and sometimes to the sender... if I'm in the To:/Cc: explicitly
>> then when I hit reply it goes just to the sender.  If I'm not, it goes
>> to the list.  Ah: because the ones explicitly to me are not even going
>> through mailman (even though mailman is on the Cc:).  I think there's a
>> setting in each subscriber's mailman to also (or not) send a copy when
>> you're already on the Cc:.
>>
>> A bit frustrating as there's no good solution.  If I tell mailman to
>> send me a copy too, then I'll always get 2 copies.  And I can't tell
>> the origin mail server not to send me that other copy... Unless someone
>> can think of something I haven't, looks like using reply-to-all or
>> reply-to-sender explicitly each time, and never using just "reply", is
>> the only way to ensure the MUA is doing what I want.
>>
>> Or... I guess if everyone refrains from ever letting any individual
>> person's email address get into the To:'s and Cc:'s that mailman
>> sees... good luck with that!
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