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Are Gmail's MX records necessary for Chinese email users to receive email from Gmail? If so, why?
by paulrosenzweig 12y ago
Are Gmail's MX records necessary for Chinese email users to receive email from Gmail? If so, why?
- marcosdumay 12y agoNo, but they are required for sending email to Gmail. And an email provider may misscharacterize a message as spam because it's lacking. Saying that they "Blocked Gmail" has an intuitive meaning that they blocked the HTTP interface to it, but they also blocked a part of the SMTP interface.
- peteretep 12y ago> No, but they are required for sending email to Gmail Unless the user is using a web-based email application, like Yahoo Mail, who can route their mail however they want. This would seem to hurt Chinese email providers more than anyone else.