On 2022-03-03 at 12:32:21 UTC-0500 (Thu, 3 Mar 2022 17:32:21 +0000) ml+mailop--- via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> is rumored to have said:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2022, Bill Cole via mailop wrote: > >> Did I miss something? > > Maybe... I provided examples before. > >> I have no idea what GMail is rejecting in SMTP > > See Message-ID: <20220302163128.ga95...@veps.esmtp.org> Tangential to what I thought I was adding a data point to... I would never dream of saying that GMail doesn't ever reject legitimate mail in SMTP. Due to the oddity of my account there I'm fairly sure that they've never done so *in my case.* Given the sort of bottom-feeders they actually deliver to the account, I have to believe they reject a lot of absolute garbage aimed at me. > I have no idea why GMail rejected those mails at the final dot. Possibly because of a lot of similar messages making them all look like spam in aggregate. Especially a problem if someone at Google applied too much of their core search and ranking mojo to email. Could apply to both of your examples. Spam filters do have false positives. >> and no one with a valid excuse to be mailing me there wouldn't have >> other better contact means. > > So you have a "fallback" mechanism -- the guy who is trying to sell > his house didn't provide one on the website. His mistake for using GMail and not having a fallback, eh? Internet email has never been and never really can be a reliable communication medium. The best it can do is to be loud and fast when it breaks, rather than doing things like figuring out too late that you don't want to or can't deliver a message and dropping it after you've accepted it in SMTP. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
