3 ms·
I had my personal domain hosted with Google. One of the reasons I moved away is that emails that I was sending to other Google Apps domains were bouncing as spa
by js2 9y ago
I had my personal domain hosted with Google. One of the reasons I moved away is that emails that I was sending to other Google Apps domains were bouncing as spam when the destination address was an alias. The bounce came from Google Groups, which is what Google used for handling aliases within Apps domains.
e.g. https://pastebin.com/u48DAaLP https://pastebin.com/u48DAaLP
That particular example was sent via SMTP, but I had the same problem when sending via the Gmail web interface, and it occurred sending to at least three different Google Apps domains.
After I moved my domain off Google Apps (I switched to Fastmail for a variety of reasons, but that issue was the kicker), I was able to send to those same addresses without issue. In fairness to Google, I was on the Google Apps free tier at the time, so there was nowhere to go for support.
- massaman_yams 9y agoARC was designed to fix that kind of edge case, and Gmail was one of the first to start signing and validating ARC within the last couple months - so this may no longer be a problem. http://arc-spec.org/ http://arc-spec.org/
- js2 9y agoWhat's the edge case? That the destination address is an alias? That I was using a personal domain? That Google implements aliases using Google Groups? I never understood what was causing these bounces. The entire email chain occurred within Google's control, passed SPF and DKIM checks, my domain isn't on any blacklists nor used for spam that I know of, and isn't used for anything but personal emails. And I've had it registered for years. Nor was it the content of the message. I had a friend with another Google Apps domain setup an alias for testing and when I mailed that address it bounced the same way, regardless of the message body. Emails to other addresses in his domain were not marked as spam... it was only Groups aliases that bounced.