Re: Gmail (thus Nanog) rejecting ipv6 email

[Andy Ringsmuth <andy () andyring com>]

> On Apr 4, 2022, at 9:39 AM, Andy Smith <andy () strugglers net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 07:44:59PM -0500, Andy Ringsmuth wrote:
> > I’m running into this with clients for whom we do web site work.
> > Mail not being delivered to Gmail accounts. No bounceback, not
> > being delayed, not marked as spam, just black-holed for no
> > discernible reason. Like, clients losing money because sales leads
> > never make it to them.
>
> Over on mailop a Google employee said that gmail never silently
> discards email, that mail will always be delivered somewhere or else
> rejected at SMTP time, and that the only exception is that GAFYD
> customers (and similar) can set up rules themselves to delete email
> under some circumstances.

I’m on mailop as well.

Sadly, what that Google employee said is provably false.


-Andy