Comment by dwedge
17 days ago
> (how many valid emails have you found in spam in the last 5 years?)
Personally, running SpamAssassin, zero.
However, this seems to be getting worse with the big providers deciding to drop domains they don't like from time to time. Selfhosted email will work for 4 years and then Google or Microsoft will spam them for a month for no reason. It always starts working again because I assume that what they are doing is technically anti-trust and running it for too long would make it obvious.
not an issue for me in general. side channels for nearly everyone i'd need email-style communication with, especially if their primary contact method is handled by any FAANG. I send test emails manually; usually when a semiweekly newsletter sends a plaintext "apparently our newsletters are bouncing", which they detect by autoresponders autoresponding. they say it's been consistently 8 median autoresponses per newsletter for 18 years, so when they get zero...