Pops wants me to use my Gmail account for job postings… but I’ve already worked so hard on setting up my Email with Purelymail and a custom domain. I’ve never had an issue of my Email getting flagged as spam before, but in this instance I sent him a zip file with no message body and it was sent straight to spam.
My question is: would you bother using Gmail just to ensure your Email replies to interested HR people don’t get sent to the spam bucket? In my opinion, the use of a custom email address indicates flair to potential hiring teams - because it shows that you are capable of setting that stuff up. BTW my TLD is Senegal (.sn) to phonetically match my last name (it’s a really cool email) but the actual name header displays as my full name just like any other email address would.
The blank email with a zip attachment and coming from a Senegalese domain is Chinese/Soviet Union-flag levels of “red flags”. I’d be shocked if that made it through any half-decent mail filter. If you truly want to test the spamminess of your mail system, try it again with an email that mimics the ones you’d actually be sending to the recruiters. I bet that would go through just fine.
That being said, if you aren’t confident in your mail system, just use Gmail. There’s billions of dollars supporting that system, so you can pretty much count on it to work.