Post #2299290

2026-05-08 15:18 UTC

Is the email system breaking down? Just now I went to an art gallery and a board game shop, and both proprietors complained that their mails never arrive any more. Coming home, I discovered a mail I was expecting for days in my spam box, while there was no reason for doing so. Is the pressure getting too high or something? It&#39;s getting impossible to mail people.

Replies (4)

@steltenpower@social.edu.nl 2026-05-08 15:34

@ppk@front-end.social The big ones sabotaging to sell their alternatives?

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@elasticsoul@mastodon.social 2026-05-08 16:40

@ppk@front-end.social Someone reported that Google, for example, is starting to block emails by domain. @petergleick@fediscience.org sir was it you? Or @pluralistic@mamot.fr may know.

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@maswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se 2026-05-08 19:17

@ppk@front-end.social It is only a small number of providers that have really bad spam filters, microsoft and google are the worst at it.

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@gcsolaroli@mastodon.clipperz.is 2026-05-09 06:32

@ppk@front-end.social @baldur@toot.cafe lately I use my Junk folder as Inbox. Fortunately, in my personal account I don’t get much actual spam, so I still manage to move relevant messages in my actual inbox. The work account on Outlook is even worst; messages do arrive, but content written with Outlook is often unintelligible, as Ourlook makes properly quoting previous messages basically impossible. Unfortunately email has entered a very slippery slope stage.

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