At least their filters are as impartial as they're inaccurate and overly aggressive...

I wonder how that'd work in an anti-trust case?

"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.

If yahoo sued them? I don't see why it wouldn't. It may not convince an expert witness, but why wouldn't it convince a jury?

Yeah, good point. I guess I was feeling unnecessarily cynical.

If I were on the jury, I'd definitely buy it. Their counsel would have to really bone up the argument that it was such equal treatment, they were flagging their own messages. And the prosecution would have to really stretch things, probably entering into conspiratorial territory in order to make a case.

Then again, I've found myself perplexed by jury decisions on tech-related cases more than once. Although having sat on a jury, I can see how such decisions might be made.

Another great one is when you're having a conversation with someone, and after several back and forth emails, the next one goes to spam. Sent from the same device, same headers, etc. Presumably it triggered some keywords. But I mean, come on! Obviously if I've replied to this person four times in a row, their fifth email is not spam.

I realize that everything takes time to implement, and developer time is not infinite, but this one seems like pretty low-hanging fruit.

Not long ago, I found in my spam mailbox several emails sent by Google's recruiters (from @google.com domain). I was, at the time, going through their interview process.

I lost a job application because the interview invitation ended up into my spam filter. Thanks, Google Accounts team!

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 [email protected]

wait, there is a line on top of that email saying:

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?

DKIM, SPF, etc?

That sounds like a bug on Google's end.