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Re: Gmail having issues

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Post by donalhunt » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:27 PM UTC

cowkingdeluxe wrote: post #3

Any email sent to my gmail is getting permanently bounced. Says my email does not exist at gmail.

Seeing the same. Even email from Google f̶o̶r̶ ̶̶w̶o̶r̶k̶g̶r̶o̶u̶p̶s̶ workspace to gmail is having issues.

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Post by qz2 » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:27 PM UTC

gjanezic wrote: post #6

AWS SES just blocked our account due to high number of bounces :(

Oh great. One more reason I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight.

Other people’s automation scares me. I’m sure mine scares other people as well.

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Post by com2kid » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:34 PM UTC

wenbin wrote: post #9

"Type: Permanent; SubType: General; Code: smtp; 550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist. Please try 550-5.1.1 double-checking the recipient's email address for typos or 550-5.1.1 unnecessary spaces. Learn more at 550 5.1.1 https://support.google.com/mail/?p=NoSuchUser y128si147264pfg.177 - gsmtp"

This is pretty much the worst response possible. Hard bounces mean that email delivery services are going to start automatically removing, or at least stopping delivery to, entire slews of email addresses.

A lot of clean up is going to be needed as a result of this.

To add some more details, when using a 3rd party email delivery service, those services will either black-list or just outright remove email addresses when they get a hard bounce "email address no longer exists" message back.

Some providers make re-adding an address after a hard bounce a non-trivial task, since after all, the authority on that email address just said it doesn't exist.

This is going to be really ugly.

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Post by gregjotau » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:35 PM UTC

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Post by gregjotau » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

Same issue here

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Post by systemvoltage » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:36 PM UTC

Side note: Love the 2010-era web design. Wtf happened? Everything got bloated, buttons got huge and whitespace took over the screen real-estate.

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Post by wwb099 » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:38 PM UTC

systemvoltage wrote: post #16

Side note: Love the 2010-era web design. Wtf happened? Everything got bloated, buttons got huge and whitespace took over the screen real-estate.

Touch on smaller screens became the primary interface. Fingers fat, buttons big.

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Post by cordite » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:38 PM UTC

cowkingdeluxe wrote: post #3

Any email sent to my gmail is getting permanently bounced. Says my email does not exist at gmail.

Yep, another here too. Weird really weird when both emails have existed with this forwarding scheme for over 2 years.

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Post by frlnBorg » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:39 PM UTC

github has un-verified my account and I'm unable to merge PRs, leave comments, etc... until it's verified again.

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Post by j-wags » Tue, Dec 15, 2020, 10:39 PM UTC

Over the past 24 hours, I've had GitHub request that I re-verify my gmail three times (roughly 22 hours ago, 2 hours ago, and now), each time resetting my primary email's status to "Undeliverable" and "Unverified"

The triggering event may be an email bounce. I get a lot of github notifications sent to my email, and the failure of just one/a few may trigger the reverification.