On Apr 3, 2022, at 9:41 AM, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > > It appears that Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> said: >> Google has been trying to move away from Internet email for many years >> now. Just let them. There is no way you can "fix" that problem on your >> side. > > Don't be silly. Gmail has over a billion users and hosts mail for > vast numbers of businesses large and small. > > I agree that they are stricter than many others at mail authentication > but considering how big they are, they do a very good job of doing what > the standards say. Way better than Y**o* ot M*****o**. >
Accepting mail for delivery, and then either silently dropping it, delaying it for days, or putting mail that in no way resembles spam into a spam folder seems a little worse than “doing what the standards say”. If you’re going to decide, on little or no evidence, that a message is spam or otherwise does not deserve to get delivered, the least you could do is to bounce it so that the sender is aware. No need to generate a bounce mail that could turn into backscatter; just reject the mail during the SMTP exchange. Jim Shankland
