Out of context: Reply #119
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TL;DR: Gmail spam filter is shit. What should I switch to?
I’m slowly moving away from google Search. Very easy to set Safari to DuckDuckGo. This is mostly a privacy thing but also a “I want to see if the results are different.” (So far they are, but not perfect. DDG needs to figure out proximity prioritization.)
Anyway, for months I’ve noticed that gmail spam filter is brutal. I didn’t notice until I started applying for jobs last year. Tons of interview offers and other important emails went to spam. In many cases, these were direct emails from people I had already emailed and in a few instances they were replies to my emails!!!
During those months, I had to manually check and clear my gmail spam filter every day. It felt like 2002. Gmail put about 80-100 emails per day in there, and about ONE IN FIVE emails related to my job hunt ended there. !!!!!
Should I run my own email server? Sounds exhausting. Get a werido paranoid service like @protonmail? Back to hotmail?
Who is doing email right?
- if you have a portfolio website, surely you have setup an email address with your domain? Use that for jobs, but don't post it directly on your site - you'llshapesalad
- attract spam bots scraping for email address. Setup spam filters as you wish in cpanel if your host has that.shapesalad
- also the more you filter your spam and tick the 'not spam' thing, the more gmail learns what is and isn't spam for you.shapesalad
- https://www.hey.com/…grafician
- using the same gmail for like 13 years and yes I click “not spam” and try to teach google. It hasn’t learned yet? This is bullshit garbage technology.nb
- I can’t imagine how many emails I lost because I wasn’t meticulously combing thru my spam filter. I thought google was supposed to be good. Lolnb