<story><title>Google Is Eating Our Mail</title><url>https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_is_eating_our_mail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bachmeier</author><text>Rule #1 if you&amp;#x27;re applying for jobs or graduate school - Don&amp;#x27;t use gmail for your email address.&lt;p&gt;Source: Led a hiring committee this year. Interview invitations and job offers went straight to the junk mail folder. Also serve as Director of Graduate Studies. Admissions and funding offers, as well as general inquiries about availability, all went straight to the junk mail folder. We&amp;#x27;re not going to change our email service.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s big enough that when someone complains that a message sent wasn&amp;#x27;t received, the intended recipient will say, &amp;quot;I never have problems with my Gmail account. It must be you.&amp;quot;  And the sender has to switch to Gmail to reliably communicate with the outside world.&lt;p&gt;I wish this was just paranoia, but we&amp;#x27;ve seen multiple discussions on HN about Google programs and policies that alter the internet in ways that only benefit Big G. It&amp;#x27;s like we&amp;#x27;re heading back to the days when people didn&amp;#x27;t know the difference between AOL and &amp;quot;the internet.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>awinder</author><text>This may be a fair sentiment for an educational institution (you&amp;#x27;re not directly making money from email sending &amp;#x2F; hopefully admissions marketing doesn&amp;#x27;t have this problem), but as a candidate I&amp;#x27;d be extremely concerned if a company I was going to work with A) couldn&amp;#x27;t deliver to gmail and B) held the view that it was everyone else&amp;#x27;s problem.  As it is you&amp;#x27;re statistically leaving half the candidate pool at the door, which is recoverable.  A biz that can&amp;#x27;t deliver to gmail is a terrible smell though.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Is Eating Our Mail</title><url>https://www.tablix.org/~avian/blog/archives/2019/04/google_is_eating_our_mail/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bachmeier</author><text>Rule #1 if you&amp;#x27;re applying for jobs or graduate school - Don&amp;#x27;t use gmail for your email address.&lt;p&gt;Source: Led a hiring committee this year. Interview invitations and job offers went straight to the junk mail folder. Also serve as Director of Graduate Studies. Admissions and funding offers, as well as general inquiries about availability, all went straight to the junk mail folder. We&amp;#x27;re not going to change our email service.</text></item><item><author>reaperducer</author><text>Google has no incentive to fix these kinds of problems.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s big enough that when someone complains that a message sent wasn&amp;#x27;t received, the intended recipient will say, &amp;quot;I never have problems with my Gmail account. It must be you.&amp;quot;  And the sender has to switch to Gmail to reliably communicate with the outside world.&lt;p&gt;I wish this was just paranoia, but we&amp;#x27;ve seen multiple discussions on HN about Google programs and policies that alter the internet in ways that only benefit Big G. It&amp;#x27;s like we&amp;#x27;re heading back to the days when people didn&amp;#x27;t know the difference between AOL and &amp;quot;the internet.&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sevensor</author><text>Indeed, the spur for me to finally sign up for Fastmail was that I was applying for a job and I can&amp;#x27;t trust Google with crucial email.  You get what you pay for.</text></comment>