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>However, I’d expect those mails to be delivered anyway since I marked the address as safe each time, but here we are.

Exactly - this is the biggest thing for me. I understand that some mail may erroneously be identified as spam, but when I explicitly mark it as Not Spam, I would expect my mail provider to respect that decision (for my inbox personally, at least).

I had a re-occuring issue where the payment receipt from my small gym kept going to spam. I think after marking it Not Spam for like 6 months it eventually started appearing in the Inbox sportatically.



"Safe" and "Spam" buttons in Gmail are like the button on a crosswalk. Sometimes they do something, sometimes they're not even hooked up.


And just like even the buttons that work are prioritizing cars potentially five miles away, they were never intended for your benefit in the first place.


but there is no ownership of the mail sender, so how would it know if its the same mail sender?




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