Posted: Sunday, July 26th, 2009 at 9:00 am.
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For ages I’ve thought that Gmail’s spam filter is the weakest link in the chain, but this may take the cake. I sent a “request authorization” to send email as this Gmail account from a different Gmail account. The authorization never came. I got distracted and went on to something else, and the remembered it and had it sent again. And it never came. Finally I looked in the spam folder, and sure enough, Gmail flagged as message from its own servers, sent as a manual request from another one of its users as spam. This is above and beyond amazing. Gmail doesn’t even trust themselves?

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For ages I’ve thought that Gmail’s spam filter is the weakest link in the chain, but this may take the cake.

I sent a “request authorization” to send email as this Gmail account from a different Gmail account.

The authorization never came.

I got distracted and went on to something else, and the remembered it and had it sent again.

And it never came.

Finally I looked in the spam folder, and sure enough, Gmail flagged as message from its own servers, sent as a manual request from another one of its users as spam.

This is above and beyond amazing. Gmail doesn’t even trust themselves?

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