The Mysteries of Email: Something Gmail does that you don’t know about…

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[While working on emails and trying to clean things up to get my email system going again, I've seen things in error logs and learned things I could never have guessed at in a million years. Here's one thing I think Gmail does that people don't notice. Jan]

EMAIL PROGRESS:
It took almost exactly 1 month. But finally my programs have cleared out the entire email backlog. I’ve not sent out a proper old newsletter to people in about 6 weeks. Today, for the first time I scheduled such a newsletter for History Reviewed only. I estimate that perhaps, 10% or less of my mailing list actually receive it.

When I first started this cleanup, my Email Error log was sitting with 1,500 errors in it. In order to do this cleanup, I cut the error log down to less than 200 emails and worked like that for exactly a month. Today is one month to the day that I started. My Error log is sitting with only 9 errors in it at the moment. But now, for the first time in a month, I’m about to do my first mailshot and will monitor it. During this month my programs removed over 800 emails. So now I want to see how the mail shot goes. My programs only send out emails at 20% of the rate I used to use before this cleanup. So the emails go out slowly.

Boy have I learned a lot of stuff in the past 6 weeks! I’ve had a chance to observe email from every angle. Do you know I have sent some emails from my email server TO MYSELF and they DON’T ARRIVE. But now that I have the logs … and I have that young South African White guy to speak to – I have all the tools I need. To actually send email is a very complex process. Each service provider (e.g. Yahoo, Tutanota, Gmail, etc) have their own requirements. Do you know, if Gmail sees that you get emails THAT YOU DO NOT CLICK ON, THEN GMAIL WILL QUIETLY STOP YOU FROM EVER SEEING THOSE EMAILS AGAIN!!!