Re:Don't send to Gmail over IPv6
by autoexec on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:29PM
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I don't care for the idea that any private network should be legally required to accept connections (let alone accepting data) from any other network if they see fit not to. No sender should have the power the force another server on another network to accept whatever they spew out to them.
If google is too aggressive about dropping mail and gmail users can't reliably get the email messages they want, those users should move to a platform that doesn't block those messages. Problem solved.
I've seen several articles in recent months about Google (and other providers) blocking too much, but they are nearly always about the senders and the burdens blocking and sender reputation places on them.
As much as I'd agree that senders have to do a lot to get mail accepted maybe this is working as intended more often than not and the fact that people aren't dropping their gmail accounts in droves seems to suggest that the people whose inboxes are directly impacted by Google's filtering are largely happy with how things are.
Most email is spam, and for the few senders who aren't just bitter that they can't force spam on the most popular email providers with impunity, I freely admit that this is an extremely frustrating experience for them and that it does help degrade the utility of email and contributes to the consolidation of useful email providers. The current situation isn't perfect.
The idea that we could send mail from any routable IP address, or send bulk email easily to anywhere, or even set up our own personal SMTP servers on a whim and still send email to any other network in the world with no deliverability issues is beautiful, but not practical.
Given the decades of scammers and advertisers abusing email, I'd much rather leave it up to the recipients to decide when a service has gone too far in blocking what ends up in their inboxes.
If google is too aggressive about dropping mail and gmail users can't reliably get the email messages they want, those users should move to a platform that doesn't block those messages. Problem solved.
I've seen several articles in recent months about Google (and other providers) blocking too much, but they are nearly always about the senders and the burdens blocking and sender reputation places on them.
As much as I'd agree that senders have to do a lot to get mail accepted maybe this is working as intended more often than not and the fact that people aren't dropping their gmail accounts in droves seems to suggest that the people whose inboxes are directly impacted by Google's filtering are largely happy with how things are.
Most email is spam, and for the few senders who aren't just bitter that they can't force spam on the most popular email providers with impunity, I freely admit that this is an extremely frustrating experience for them and that it does help degrade the utility of email and contributes to the consolidation of useful email providers. The current situation isn't perfect.
The idea that we could send mail from any routable IP address, or send bulk email easily to anywhere, or even set up our own personal SMTP servers on a whim and still send email to any other network in the world with no deliverability issues is beautiful, but not practical.
Given the decades of scammers and advertisers abusing email, I'd much rather leave it up to the recipients to decide when a service has gone too far in blocking what ends up in their inboxes.