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Am I the only one here experiencing that GMail does reasonably good job in filtering out the spam, while I have to visit the Spam folder approximately once a week, just to randomly correct a mail or 2 a month? (not a Google employee)

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That’s not the issue, though. The issue is that Gmail are too zealous in blocking and wind up blocking legitimate email with no way for the sender to debug what happened. From your perspective, nothing happened because how do you prove you never got an email you never knew was sent to you?

The people having problems here are non-Gmail senders sending email to Gmail recipients.

Every time I look in my spam folder, there's dozens of legitimate emails in there, and I get this dreadful feeling that over the years, thousands of legitimate mails went over the 30-days-in-spam threshold, down the memory hole forever.

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