Originally Posted by
Flying_higher
It’s 2023, not 1990, and email is a reliable and normal form of communication. I’m no lawyer however I do believe there is legislation that if an email leaves the senders server and makes it to the recipients server it is deemed to have been sent.
In 2023 email is not a 100% reliable form of communication. A huge amount of email that is sent is never received, because it is spam and is filtered out by various anti spam systems. Some legitimate email inevitably is mistakenly classified as spam. Some spam is delivered to "Junk" folders, some is rejected or deleted prior to delivery. It's up to the organizations running the receiving email systems e.g. Google.
People tend to complain more about spam than emails that were not received, because they often don't know about the latter. So systems tend to err on the side of non-delivery.
It's true, most of the time email gets delivered. But certainly not 100%.