Is Gmail Not Delivering All My Email Replies ?
Gmail is adding new kewl features, I read it on techcrunch (you can now read emails from other pop accounts) but I've been having troubles getting my ben at feedcorp dot com dot au email (which i send thru my gmail account with domain hosted at godaddy) to not bounce (esp for some people who are corporates trying to respond to my very exciting it's almost xmas ben i'm really busy it sounds great but emails)
It's never gratifying to work on deals as a startup ie unemployed work vs getting paid for a job where u get paid either way (also we're talking theoretically here re deals + more i want to get all my emails replies business or otherwise; important or not !) and suddenly the silence you are hearing is because of some weird thing where gmail withholds my IP address to protect my privacy, which then leads to spammers using gmail, and somehow me 3 degrees getting blacklisted by some spam filters (SORBS/spamcop), or something leading to a similar outcome.
Now obviously I do things like followup on phone and in person... as to ensure I'm not in a situation where I'm waiting for a SORBS/SpamCopd approved email. But instant publishing - whether it be blogs or email - is key. Blocking my email replies because of some random technical thang that has nothing to do with me is Wak. Eazy E wak. It's like England who kept bowling that 5th change offspinner Giles in the last test and expecting to win or draw.
And because this gmail ip spam filtering is selective, you dont really know till people say they got a bounced email a few days later (or didnt even receive a bounce thx to their server/support setup but either way the email didnt get thru !! It's not like all of us reply to all emails as it is, altho I make a point of having a 85% within 24 hours reply rate kinda esp if it's interesting or important or obligatory) Any1 else got a similar problem and solution that ideally retains using gmail (or a good webbased solution) and my email address ? I love macs but entourage looks like outlook on windows but worse 7 years ago. (im told i can also use godaddys web interface aagh) Not going there.
And who are these SpamCop + SORBS people ? What market share do they have and what percentage of my emails arent getting to me so I can use FREE WILL to not reply ? (i've been told to say goodbye to gmail for my-non gmail domain sent emails where i want to read the reply !) And SORBS (who/whatever they r have almost blacklisted New Zealand. Damn it, what about Guru DR RW MacManus ?) Damn this forest and falling tree will any1 be able to reply to my email metaphor.
Whirlpool : "One area in particular that SpamCop poses a problem is with delayed bouncebacks. Under the standard definition for SMTP traffic servers are allowed to deliver delayed bouncebacks. SpamCop arbitrarily have decided that this is a "generic spam pattern" and if a delayed bounce back hits one of their spam traps then they blacklist your SMTP address. We had a scenario where we took down our SMTP services for maintenance over part of a weekend and when we brought them back up Monday morning by lunch time we'd been blacklisted. What had happened was some inbound email had been picked up by our filters as spam, was meant to be bounced back, but the gateways had been down. The spam had the return address spoofed to a SpamCop spam trap address. As soon as the gateways came back online, the spam bounced back and in no time our gateways were blacklisted."
It's never gratifying to work on deals as a startup ie unemployed work vs getting paid for a job where u get paid either way (also we're talking theoretically here re deals + more i want to get all my emails replies business or otherwise; important or not !) and suddenly the silence you are hearing is because of some weird thing where gmail withholds my IP address to protect my privacy, which then leads to spammers using gmail, and somehow me 3 degrees getting blacklisted by some spam filters (SORBS/spamcop), or something leading to a similar outcome.
Now obviously I do things like followup on phone and in person... as to ensure I'm not in a situation where I'm waiting for a SORBS/SpamCopd approved email. But instant publishing - whether it be blogs or email - is key. Blocking my email replies because of some random technical thang that has nothing to do with me is Wak. Eazy E wak. It's like England who kept bowling that 5th change offspinner Giles in the last test and expecting to win or draw.
And because this gmail ip spam filtering is selective, you dont really know till people say they got a bounced email a few days later (or didnt even receive a bounce thx to their server/support setup but either way the email didnt get thru !! It's not like all of us reply to all emails as it is, altho I make a point of having a 85% within 24 hours reply rate kinda esp if it's interesting or important or obligatory) Any1 else got a similar problem and solution that ideally retains using gmail (or a good webbased solution) and my email address ? I love macs but entourage looks like outlook on windows but worse 7 years ago. (im told i can also use godaddys web interface aagh) Not going there.
And who are these SpamCop + SORBS people ? What market share do they have and what percentage of my emails arent getting to me so I can use FREE WILL to not reply ? (i've been told to say goodbye to gmail for my-non gmail domain sent emails where i want to read the reply !) And SORBS (who/whatever they r have almost blacklisted New Zealand. Damn it, what about Guru DR RW MacManus ?) Damn this forest and falling tree will any1 be able to reply to my email metaphor.
Whirlpool : "One area in particular that SpamCop poses a problem is with delayed bouncebacks. Under the standard definition for SMTP traffic servers are allowed to deliver delayed bouncebacks. SpamCop arbitrarily have decided that this is a "generic spam pattern" and if a delayed bounce back hits one of their spam traps then they blacklist your SMTP address. We had a scenario where we took down our SMTP services for maintenance over part of a weekend and when we brought them back up Monday morning by lunch time we'd been blacklisted. What had happened was some inbound email had been picked up by our filters as spam, was meant to be bounced back, but the gateways had been down. The spam had the return address spoofed to a SpamCop spam trap address. As soon as the gateways came back online, the spam bounced back and in no time our gateways were blacklisted."
posted by redbarren at 2:47 PM
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