[HN Gopher] Email Forwarding Is Bad: Why you should never forwar...
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       Email Forwarding Is Bad: Why you should never forward email
        
       Author : geocrasher
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-07-13 16:28 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | leephillips wrote:
       | The article is not about "why you should never forward email".
       | Forwarding email is fine. It's about why you should not set up
       | automatic forwarding rules into a provider like Google or
       | Hotmail, which is excellent advice.
        
       | vgel wrote:
       | As far as I can tell if you use a service like ImprovMX (not
       | affiliated, just a customer), this shouldn't be an issue, because
       | the email is forwarded by their service instead of your server.
       | This page seems to suggest that, since they're filtering spam to
       | protect _their_ deliverability rates, not yours:
       | https://improvmx.com/guides/emails-refused-spamhaus/
       | 
       | This also seems like a fairly obvious fix for email providers, to
       | detect forwarded mail and assign blame to the real sender? Idk.
        
       | jdlyga wrote:
       | Better Headline: "Email Is Bad"
       | 
       | It's the worst way of communicating with people. Personal
       | messages get lost in a sea of receipts and marketing emails.
       | Conversation chains are hard to follow, and it's so easy to lose
       | or not be aware of important bits of information.
        
         | buster wrote:
         | Honestly I don't know how you are using mail but I feel it's
         | the best way of asynchronous communication. You have so many
         | options and tools, I don't know how one could possibly use it
         | the completely wrong way...
        
         | leephillips wrote:
         | Conversations are pretty easy to follow if you don't use the
         | broken clients from Google or Microsoft:
         | https://lwn.net/Articles/837960/
        
         | millzlane wrote:
         | If you treat it like real mail it works better.
        
           | cconover wrote:
           | If you treat it like real mail it ends up exactly the way the
           | OP describes: a few high-value messages at risk of being lost
           | in a deluge of low-value, often unsolicited, noise. My real
           | mail is so full of stuff I don't want and don't care about
           | that it makes me resistant to looking at it at all - in fact,
           | the only reason I do (and irresponsibly infrequently at that)
           | is because of mail that occasionally arrives that has legal
           | or financial implications.
           | 
           | I think it's reasonable to expect that sender-controlled
           | messaging ends up in this state, particularly when the
           | messaging platform is incentivized to support this model.
           | 
           | ETA: typo fixes
        
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