diff --git a/app/Services/AlertNotifier.php b/app/Services/AlertNotifier.php
index d1cc052..62abd82 100644
--- a/app/Services/AlertNotifier.php
+++ b/app/Services/AlertNotifier.php
@@ -27,14 +27,17 @@ class AlertNotifier
 
     private function email(AlertIncident $incident, bool $resolved): void
     {
-        try {
-            $recipients = $this->recipients();
-            if ($recipients === []) {
-                return;
+        // ONE message per recipient — NOT a single To: with everyone. A mixed To that contains an
+        // undeliverable address (e.g. a seeded admin on a non-routable domain) reads as spam to
+        // providers like Gmail and gets the WHOLE message silently dropped for the valid recipients
+        // too. Per-recipient sends isolate that (and don't leak co-recipients' addresses). Each send
+        // is best-effort: a bad address is logged, never thrown, so it can't break the poll loop.
+        foreach ($this->recipients() as $recipient) {
+            try {
+                Mail::to($recipient)->queue(new AlertNotification($incident, $resolved));
+            } catch (Throwable $e) {
+                Log::warning('alert email failed for '.$recipient.': '.$e->getMessage());
             }
-            Mail::to($recipients)->queue(new AlertNotification($incident, $resolved));
-        } catch (Throwable $e) {
-            Log::warning('alert email failed: '.$e->getMessage());
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/probe_mail.php b/probe_mail.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a81aa08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/probe_mail.php
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?php
+
+use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Cache;
+
+Cache::forget('wmc');
+dispatch(function () {
+    Cache::put('wmc',
+        config('mail.default').' | host='.config('mail.mailers.smtp.host').' | transport='.config('mail.mailers.'.config('mail.default').'.transport', 'n/a'),
+        300);
+});
+echo "dispatched\n";
diff --git a/tests/Feature/AlertNotifierTest.php b/tests/Feature/AlertNotifierTest.php
index a049098..749d375 100644
--- a/tests/Feature/AlertNotifierTest.php
+++ b/tests/Feature/AlertNotifierTest.php
@@ -26,14 +26,18 @@ class AlertNotifierTest extends TestCase
         return AlertIncident::create(['alert_rule_id' => $rule->id, 'server_id' => $server->id, 'state' => 'firing', 'value' => 95, 'started_at' => now()]);
     }
 
-    public function test_email_is_queued_to_the_configured_recipients(): void
+    public function test_email_is_queued_once_per_recipient_with_a_single_to(): void
     {
         Mail::fake();
         Setting::put('alert_email_to', "ops@example.com\nsecond@example.com");
 
         app(AlertNotifier::class)->notify($this->incident(), resolved: false);
 
-        Mail::assertQueued(AlertNotification::class, fn (AlertNotification $m) => $m->hasTo('ops@example.com'));
+        // One message PER recipient, each with only its own address — a shared To that included an
+        // undeliverable recipient would otherwise get the whole mail spam-dropped for everyone.
+        Mail::assertQueued(AlertNotification::class, 2);
+        Mail::assertQueued(AlertNotification::class, fn (AlertNotification $m) => $m->hasTo('ops@example.com') && ! $m->hasTo('second@example.com'));
+        Mail::assertQueued(AlertNotification::class, fn (AlertNotification $m) => $m->hasTo('second@example.com') && ! $m->hasTo('ops@example.com'));
     }
 
     public function test_falls_back_to_admin_emails_when_none_configured(): void