On February 13, 2026 6:59:31 AM GMT+08:00, Benjamin LaHaise via sigs-l3go <sigs-l3go [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org> wrote: >On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 05:54:34PM -0500, Matthew Charette via sigs-l3go wrote: >... >> <broader list issues chat> >> It seems l3go gets continually flagged by Gmail as spam. I go in about once >> every 2 months to clear the flag, "not spam tyvm :)", but I keep needing to >> dig for the emails. I stopped running my own mail server awhile ago because >> it would appear the infrastructure for email is so heavily dependent on >> third parties and certs now that I just went, "bah, whatever". I'd guess >> Alex could brain dump on this and give all of us a proper education...... >> (literally asking, poke poke.... :)) >... > >gmail is actively hostile towards mailing lists. Don't expect any mailing >lists to work with it. I had to unsubscribe all the @gmail.com >subscribers from linux-mm as the number of false positives and otherwise >random bounces made it completely unreliable. It's sad that email servers >with a good reputation on the same IP for more than 17 years is not enough >to get past spam filteres these days. > I see the same thing. I hosted the vorlage ski patrol list since I was a patroller in 2002 and they moved to a MS teams list this winter after seeing a spike in messages marked as spam. mh -- Martin Hicks mort [ at ] bork [ dot ] org 613-266-2296 -- Manage your subscription: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org/sigs-l3go/listinfo.html