Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Is that really true? My domains and mail are hosted on a small[ish] ISP in the UK. As far as I'm aware absoltely **all** E-Mail that arrives there and is addressed to me will get sent to me, unless **I** decide to drop some by setting some filtering criteria.
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