On Tue, Mar 31, 2026 at 12:28:10PM +0300, Washington Odhiambo via mailop wrote: > So, my server IP is 62.169.28.150 and the list in question is > [email protected]. The list has been in existence for over two > decades. > > I am at the end of my wits as to what is causing this and how to arrest the > situation. > > If it matters, I also have listmonk on this server and which I use every so > often to send, with successful delivery, over 10,000 emails.
This sounds a lot like my own situation. The domain has been active 20+ years, only a handful of users, but success in getting mail from here inboxed at gmail is far from guaranteed. And of course, the only way to get an actual response from them is to complain loudly here (as I did in January, see the list archives). Their attitude seems to be that unless you are sending above an arbitraryly set minimum number of messages per time unit (I forget which), the basically do not care one way or another, and their Rube Goldberg contraption for mail filtering will not produce consistent results unless fed a sufficient number of messages. And of course, whoever wrote/designed/hacked together the thing in the first place is no longer around, and the people there now seem to be scared of touching the thing. I maintain a gmail account myself mainly because I own Android devices, but I would not recommend anybody use that service for any other purpose. However, some of my contacts work for companies that have outsourced their mail service to Google, and the gmail account has proven to be useful in contacting those persons when gmail is not cooperating. I would of course welcome any development that would indicate that Google are shifting away from the attitude of "if you're not us, you're one of the little people, and the little people have no business running an email service". All the best, Peter -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogposts https://nostarch.com/book-of-pf-4th-edition "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds. _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list [email protected] https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
