Andy Smith [2026-04-28 19:40:40] wrote: > A Google employee on the "mailop" mailing list once said that there is > absolutely no intentional way for gmail to silently discard an email, > unless a user with a Workspaces account has added filtering rules to do > that. > > On the other hand, as someone whose business sends out invoices by > email, I have had recipients at gmail.com swear that they only paid late > because "we never received the email", despite me showing Exim logs > where gmail accepted it. > > So I honestly do not know who to believe on that particular point.
I think the answer lies in the definition of "discard" and at which stage this can happen. Like all MTAs, Gmail routinely silently drops email on the floor on the basis that it's presumed to be "spam". So Google's employee must have been referring to something else, like "discarding after spam filtering" or something like that. === Stefan
