Thoughts on Gmail filtering

Gmail has some extremely complex filters. They’re machine learning based and measure hundreds of things about incoming mail. The filters are continually adjusting to changes and updating how they treat specific mail.
One consequence of continually adjusting machine learning filters is that filtering is not static. What passes to the inbox now, may not pass in a couple hours.
One of the other challenges with Gmail filters is that they look at all the mail mentioning a particular domain and so affiliate mail and 3rd party mail can affect delivery of corporate mail.
The good news is that continually adjusting filters adapt to positive changes as well as negative ones. In fact, I recently made a segmentation suggestion to a client and they saw a significant increase in inbox delivery at Gmail the next day.
Gmail can be a challenge for delivery, but send mail users want and mail does go to the inbox.

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