I have some level of sympathy with Google here, which isn’t something I often say.
I recently switched from Gmail to Fastmail and by and large I’m happy with it. But I’ve been surprised by the amount of spam and (particularly) phishing emails I get in a regular basis. Google might be too strict in its filtering but it does serve a legitimate purpose.
> Google might be too strict in its filtering
they are, but not in this case
Message-Id being basically required for _automated_ mails (very similar mail send to a lot of people) requiring Message-Id is a de-facto industry standard. Sure some providers don't care and some might make it just more likely that your mail ends up in spam. But this could have happened with pretty much any mail provider widely used by companies.
much more funny (/s) is if you start out in a startup and still use the default template for password reset/on-baording links of a widely used system (e.g. Keycloak) and it turns out multiple larger but "cheap" phishing campaigns did the same and now MS/Google and other suspect you are running a phishing operation
or when you use a local data center and can't send mails to MS/Outlook anymore because it turns out someone did some legal questionable things on them and MS wanted the personal information to be handed over _without court order or any ongoing legal proceeding against this people_ and they didn't hand it over (partially because they legally aren't allowed to...) and MS decided to retaliate by permanently blacklist the IPv4 range of that data center(s) which just happen to locally compete with Azure while self hosted mails competes with Outlooks...
In Europe you can sue Microsoft for not accepting your emails that aren't spam.
Interesting that you mention this, as I also switched to Fastmail recently and got more spam than before, but after marking it as spam for some time it now died down I think. This may also be a symptom of changing providers, where the previous provider knew the kind of spam I tended to get from past years, while Fastmail needed some time to get up to speed.
Fingers crossed that the experience will be the same for you.
Long time Fastmail customer. Let it learn a bit about your inbox. I barely see any spam these days that’s not been caught. Except LinkedIn, that somehow goes through
I don't think a single spam email has ever crossed into my Fastmail inbox. Granted, every service I sign up for gets it's own masked email. But while the @fastmail.nl email that I chuck on my website gets a fair amount of spam, it always gets categorized correctly.
Fastmail seems to go through periods where they're a little slower to adjust to new spam techniques, and they do rely on users filtering somewhat. About twice a year a few will slip through, but if I report them as spam they soon stop.
I've been a happy customer otherwise for years, for what its worth.
I've considered this switch. You're saying that previously gmail was dropping the emails, or they were landing in spam?
I switched from Fastmail to Gmail/Workspace a year ago. I think but cannot conclusively prove that Gmail drops Apple transaction emails on occasion ( like receipts ). But I also think Fastmail dropped other emails too.
Presumably they were in spam. But I rarely ever checked my spam folder to know with certainty.