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Re:Dear Google Mail Team by wahnfrieden on Friday July 17, 2015 @06:42PM (#9905781)
Just FYI, most spam does not even reach your spam folder.
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Re:Dear Google Mail Team by nchelluri on Friday July 17, 2015 @07:16PM (#9905913)
What happens to it? It gets blackholed somehow?
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Re:Dear Google Mail Team by leonatan on Friday July 17, 2015 @07:25PM (#9905929)
Mail relay servers deny its acceptance.
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Re:Dear Google Mail Team by wahnfrieden on Saturday July 18, 2015 @12:57AM (#9906636)
Google can also decide it's not even worth showing in the spam folder - the spam folder is for things it's less certain of.
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Re:Dear Google Mail Team by themartorana on Friday July 17, 2015 @10:28PM (#9906366)
True. We send thousands of emails a week and all of a sudden a large portion weren't even delivered. Turns out it's all DMARC and once those policies were fixed (assigned at all) the delivery denials ended.

This helped us:

https://dmarc.postmarkapp.com

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