PSA: Gmail's spam filters have gone bonkers

[usonian]

Hacker News user thyrox has a bad time with gmail's spam filters. Long discussion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34411009

I don't know what is happening with Gmail but lately Gmail's aggressive spam filtering created a huge problem for me.

It was a reply I sent to an email yet Gmail somehow figured out it was spam and the other person never got it (which I learned after 1 week)

Two weeks before they sent the property tax notice (from the govt) in spam and had I missed that email there would have been a penalty.

This is a very old Gmail address almost 10 years or more so I don't know what's happening but I've stopped trusting Gmail altogether after this.

Seems that this has been a problem for some time.
Check the spam folder.
Cross-posted to General Discussion

[DBoon]

1. Best advice I have is to whitelist known good email addresses

In a Web browser, Settings -> All settings -> Filters and blocked addresses -> input emails and specify "Do this: Never send it to Spam"

I am considering getting a new email service, in addition to overly aggressive spam filtering, I'm not happy with the data harvesting Google does