Over the last year, I ended a 20-plus year long run of hosting my own email (and email for a handful of other people and businesses I had a relationship with), entirely because of Gmail's behavior.
People here saying "it's spam, not Gmail" are being distracted from the numerous issues that independent mail services do have with Gmail.
Gmail is extremely uncooperative at accepting email from services that aren't Gmail, Comcast (sometimes), or Microsoft. You can have everything configured correctly, on an IP you've owned for years, and aggressively manage any outbound spam, and Gmail will still hate your guts and bounce your email or file it in the recipient's Junk folder.
Before Gmail got huge, email service providers typically offered an avenue for addressing false-positives in their filtering systems. Gmail really pioneered the "nah, screw you" approach to this.
Meanwhile, Gmail is itself a huge source of spam.
I (maybe perversely) loved hosting my email and email for a handful of other people. It's fun. Gmail took all the fun out of it and turned it into a seething hatred.
People here saying "it's spam, not Gmail" are being distracted from the numerous issues that independent mail services do have with Gmail.
Gmail is extremely uncooperative at accepting email from services that aren't Gmail, Comcast (sometimes), or Microsoft. You can have everything configured correctly, on an IP you've owned for years, and aggressively manage any outbound spam, and Gmail will still hate your guts and bounce your email or file it in the recipient's Junk folder.
Before Gmail got huge, email service providers typically offered an avenue for addressing false-positives in their filtering systems. Gmail really pioneered the "nah, screw you" approach to this.
Meanwhile, Gmail is itself a huge source of spam.
I (maybe perversely) loved hosting my email and email for a handful of other people. It's fun. Gmail took all the fun out of it and turned it into a seething hatred.