It doesn't seem to me to be a great strategy to single out gmail when Microsoft's hotmail/live/outlook mailservers regularly fail to notify recipients that they have not delivered mail under the rule that 'Deliverability to Outlook.com is based on your reputation'. Mailserver admins are then encouraged to sign up for a microsoft account to help microsoft generate up to date metrics on mailservers. I am sure other major proprietary systems take similar 'closed-world' assumptions about transporting email?
On 25/01/18 13:38, Mat Witts wrote:
It doesn't seem to me to be a great strategy to single out gmail when Microsoft's hotmail/live/outlook mailservers regularly fail to notify recipients that they have not delivered mail under the rule that 'Deliverability to Outlook.com is based on your reputation'. Mailserver admins are then encouraged to sign up for a microsoft account to help microsoft generate up to date metrics on mailservers. I am sure other major proprietary systems take similar 'closed-world' assumptions about transporting email?
It is interesting that you raise the hotmail example
There are several cases where people told me this particularly bad behaviour, together with some specific example of how it impacted them, was enough to make them give up on hotmail but in each case they had migrated to gmail.
Regards,
Daniel
Hi Daniel,
Daniel Pocock daniel@pocock.pro writes:
There are several cases where people told me this particularly bad behaviour, together with some specific example of how it impacted them, was enough to make them give up on hotmail but in each case they had migrated to gmail.
The reason might be that people want a nice webmailer and while Google does filter the mail if they think it is a promotion (and some of our mails are of a promotional nature), they do not harrass people like Microsoft/Hotmail do. Google will usually accept email from personal mail servers and if they don't, they give you a clear reason. So at least from that perspective, their behavior is fine.
Happy hacking! Florian