Gmail has never suggested they care. 

Laura

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> On Sep 6, 2019, at 8:38 PM, Brandon Long <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Now people have made me curious what they set those values to for Gmail.  We 
> don't have simple limits like those (a quick check shows the max number of 
> messages sent on a single connection in the past week is 414k, and I know 
> I've seen total number of connections from a single source over 10k), the 
> throttling is on a more esoteric collections of signals ... 
> 
> Brandon
> 
>> On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 5:06 AM Laura Atkins via mailop <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> There were smaller folks who did tarpit heavily and there was likely badly 
>> written spamware, but neither of those were cases I was thinking about. 
>> 
>> I’m, basically, quoting one of the mail engineers from one of the large 
>> mailbox providers. They implemented limits to connections and limits to 
>> number of emails per connection based on specific malicious behavior from 
>> spammers.
>> 
>> laura 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 6 Sep 2019, at 11:24, Dave Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I remember that IIRC a lot of that was down to the receiving mail server 
>>> tar-pitting perceived spam connections to deter. However a lot of software 
>>> was so crude it had no connection timeouts and just sat there - haven't 
>>> seen that behaviour in a very long time :) 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 11:08, Laura Atkins via mailop <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> There was a point in time where if you didn’t limit the number of messages 
>>>> per session a few of the larger mailbox providers would simply cut you 
>>>> off. The issue was some spammers were making hundreds of connections and 
>>>> then holding them open for days (yes, really, more than 24 hours at a 
>>>> time). A few of the big mailbox providers addressed this by limiting the 
>>>> number of connections from a single IP and limiting the number of emails 
>>>> you could send down a connection before disconnecting and reconnecting. 
>>>> 
>>>> laura 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 5 Sep 2019, at 16:31, Brotman, Alexander via mailop 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> One of the interesting things I’ve learned while interacting with ESPs is 
>>>>> that some of them will artificially restrict the number of messages per 
>>>>> session, in lieu of opening more sessions. Some of them have told me the 
>>>>> values are in the low single digits. I’ve kind of wondered the rationale 
>>>>> for that might be. Is it the idea that you want to get your messages 
>>>>> through as quickly as possible?
>>>>>  
>>>>> --
>>>>> Alex Brotman
>>>>> Sr. Engineer, Anti-Abuse & Messaging Policy
>>>>> Comcast
>>>>>  
>>>>> From: mailop <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Benjamin BILLON via 
>>>>> mailop
>>>>> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2019 10:08 AM
>>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [mailop] Resolving issues for several yahoo 
>>>>> domains?
>>>>>  
>>>>> > Hate to imagine how much mail is currently trying to get into Yahoo and 
>>>>> > AOL 
>>>>> Same. Hate also to imagine the day (and night?) of the folks working on 
>>>>> fixing that.
>>>>>  
>>>>> --
>>>>> Benjamin
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>> From: Dave Holmes <[email protected]> 
>>>>> Sent: jeudi 5 septembre 2019 15:57
>>>>> To: Benjamin BILLON <[email protected]>
>>>>> Cc: [email protected]
>>>>> Subject: Re: [mailop] Resolving issues for several yahoo domains?
>>>>>  
>>>>> Not the quickest or easiest to do as a lot of senders will have different 
>>>>> limits on different IP pools depending on reputation / previous 
>>>>> throughput. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> I've dropped in a platform wide rule to back off the mail queues when the 
>>>>> response is encountered - should do the Job. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Hate to imagine how much mail is currently trying to get into Yahoo and 
>>>>> AOL 
>>>>>  
>>>>> On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 14:39, Benjamin BILLON via mailop 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, everyone.
>>>>> Some, very few, emails are accepted. I believe their servers are 
>>>>> overloaded. I suggest everyone to back off a bit, for instance by 
>>>>> limiting the number of concurrent connections per outbound IP to ... 1. 
>>>>> Until it gets better. 
>>>>> Forcing our way through is not gonna work, or help.
>>>>>  
>>>>> The DNS issue seems solved now.
>>>>>  
>>>>> --
>>>>> Benjamin
>>>>> 
>>>>>  
>>>>> From: mailop <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave Holmes via 
>>>>> mailop
>>>>> Sent: jeudi 5 septembre 2019 15:21
>>>>> To: Ewald Kessler | Webpower <[email protected]>
>>>>> Cc: mailop <[email protected]>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [mailop] Resolving issues for several yahoo domains?
>>>>>  
>>>>> Were seeing large mail queues forming on our side but I think this 
>>>>> extends beyond the DNS I've not come across this message from Yahoo 
>>>>> before. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Error: "421 Service not available, closing transmission channel tnmpmscs"
>>>>>  
>>>>> So whilst we have the DNS resolution (possibly cached) they are dropping 
>>>>> connections all over the place, same goes for all of their other domains. 
>>>>>  
>>>>> Anyone else with issues delivering after DNS resolves
>>>>>  
>>>>>  
>>>>> On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 10:31, Ewald Kessler | Webpower via mailop 
>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> Yes, Oath (a.o. Yahoo, AOL) is having serious issues. Their engineers are 
>>>>> working to resolve the issues.
>>>>>  
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Ewald
>>>>>  
>>>>> On Thu, 5 Sep 2019 at 10:35, tobisworld--- via mailop <[email protected]> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> We're currently seeing several yahoo domains (ex yahoo.de) cannot be
>>>>> resolved any more in DNS. All the responsable nameservers for that
>>>>> domain do not reply anymore. Only ns4.yahoo.com replies from time to
>>>>> time for yahoo.de but according to glue record ns4.yahoo.com is not in
>>>>> charge for yahoo.de anymore.
>>>>> 
>>>>> anyone else seeing such problems with yahoo?
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> 
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