Damn You Gmail (Friday, February 01, 2008 12:48:00 AM)
I never thought I'd say it, but Gmail, you suck.
I've been wrestling with this for almost 24 hours now, but the email notifications I set up for the comments are being rejected by Gmail. What's more, they're being rejected with
no bounceback from Gmail. I set up the site to notify me by email whenever someone commented on a post and what post they commented on. The first day I did it, the email worked just fine. I even have the header to prove it!
Delivered-To: kevinjnewman@gmail.com
Received: by 10.142.76.13 with SMTP id y13cs109190wfa;
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:21:41 -0800 (PST)
Received: by 10.142.12.14 with SMTP id 14mr2789872wfl.81.1201558900576;
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:21:40 -0800 (PST)
Return-Path: <webmaster@hisgeekness.com>
Received: from hisgeekness.com (75-162-52-94.desm.qwest.net [75.162.52.94])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 58si10490238rnw.4.2008.01.28.14.21.34;
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:21:40 -0800 (PST)
Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 75.162.52.94 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of webmaster@hisgeekness.com) client-ip=75.162.52.94;
Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 75.162.52.94 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of webmaster@hisgeekness.com) smtp.mail=webmaster@hisgeekness.com
Received: from mail pickup service by hisgeekness.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC;
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:19:37 -0600
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Thread-Topic: New Comment Under "God Damn This is Taking a Long Time ..."
From: <webmaster@hisgeekness.com>
To: <kevinjnewman@gmail.com>
Am I making this up or did Google accept the above email just fine?
Well, for some reason now it's just
accepting the email, but then just saying "eh, fuck you" and dropping it into oblivion. The courteous thing to do would be to notify me of what happened or send it back, but it doesn't even seem to do that. I understand Gmail gets millions (if not billions) of spam messages a day, but all I'm asking for here is ONE bounceback to tell me what's wrong. Instead, it just accepts it and sweeps it under the rug as far as I know.
To be fair though, I can't seem to successfully send to any address in my domain. The address
resolves just fine, but when I send to an address, my mail server accepts it (EHLO, MAIL, RCPT, DATA, QUIT) but it never appears in any of my inboxes or in the Badmail folder of IIS. So, I guess if Gmail did send me a bounceback, it wouldn't appear in any inbox ... BUT, my logs don't even show a bounceback.
So frustrating ...
Well, if anyone understands that and has any insight, feel free to comment. But, until then, I have to assume Gmail is giving me the middle finger under the assumption that I'm a spammer. In reality, it's the legitimate small-time mail servers like mine that bear the brunt of the spam war.
-Newman