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On Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:12:55 +0100
Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Andy Smith [2026-04-28 19:40:40] wrote:  
> > > A Google employee on the "mailop" mailing list once said that
> > > there is absolutely no intentional way for gmail to silently
> > > discard an email, unless a user with a Workspaces account has
> > > added filtering rules to do that.
> > >
> > > On the other hand, as someone whose business sends out invoices by
> > > email, I have had recipients at gmail.com swear that they only
> > > paid late because "we never received the email", despite me
> > > showing Exim logs where gmail accepted it.
> > >
> > > So I honestly do not know who to believe on that particular
> > > point.  
> > 
> > I think the answer lies in the definition of "discard" and at which
> > stage this can happen.  Like all MTAs, Gmail routinely silently
> > drops email on the floor on the basis that it's presumed to be
> > "spam". So Google's employee must have been referring to something
> > else, like "discarding after spam filtering" or something like that.
> >   
> Is that really true?  My domains and mail are hosted on a small[ish]
> ISP in the UK.  As far as I'm aware absoltely **all** E-Mail that
> arrives there and is addressed to me will get sent to me, unless **I**
> decide to drop some by setting some filtering criteria.
> 

Maybe, maybe not, it's up to the email administrator. My server rejects
some email at the SMTP transaction level for a variety of reasons, but
then the sender (if a real email sender) will be notified the
transaction failed, and why. I don't reject there on message content,
but the means to do so certainly exists.

-- 
Joe

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