Gmail recipients don't get any of my emails anymore
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 6:49 am
Hi,
I'm a long-time Spamgourmet user.
I don't use Gmail, but some of the people I write to do.
Until recently, some Gmail mechanism was causing most of my emails sent to my "Gmail-based correspondents" to not get my messages because they were automatically moved to the "spam" folder (or whatever it's called in Gmail).
More recently, some change was made in Gmail that results in ALL my messages to these Gmail-based recipients to be *silently deleted* (so the recipients tell me).
I've performed some tests, that revealed that this is the case if I use my primary "nospam4sba" Spamgourmet account.
If I use another "nsfs" Spamgourmet account I have created for testing purposes, then the messages are NOT deleted by Gmail.
My guess (with my software engineering professional hat on) is that Gmail has recently decided that it's not allowed to receive email from a sender whose email address contains the string "spam."
I've asked for help on the Gmail support forum, and I got the following response:
Where do I go from here?
Thanks in advance for your help.
I'm a long-time Spamgourmet user.
I don't use Gmail, but some of the people I write to do.
Until recently, some Gmail mechanism was causing most of my emails sent to my "Gmail-based correspondents" to not get my messages because they were automatically moved to the "spam" folder (or whatever it's called in Gmail).
More recently, some change was made in Gmail that results in ALL my messages to these Gmail-based recipients to be *silently deleted* (so the recipients tell me).
I've performed some tests, that revealed that this is the case if I use my primary "nospam4sba" Spamgourmet account.
If I use another "nsfs" Spamgourmet account I have created for testing purposes, then the messages are NOT deleted by Gmail.
My guess (with my software engineering professional hat on) is that Gmail has recently decided that it's not allowed to receive email from a sender whose email address contains the string "spam."
I've asked for help on the Gmail support forum, and I got the following response:
Have you checked with Spamgourmet, to find out if the messages were rejected or accepted by the Gmail SMTP servers? Google have always claimed that any messages accepted by their servers get delivered to the user's account. (They may be classified as spam, but Gmail does not have any "black holes" or silent deletion mechanisms.)
If you can verify that the message was accepted, but you cannot find it in the Gmail account, then get the Message-ID so that Google can check it out.
(You can test your "spam" name theory by sending mail directly to a Gmail account.)
Where do I go from here?
Thanks in advance for your help.