Hi William On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 8:22 PM, William T <[email protected]> wrote:
> We have a website (www.blah.com for example) that generates emails to a > gmail group ([email protected] for example). The group has fewer than ten > people in it, all being members of the organization. The emails aren't > getting thru the group to the members of the group. > > It was working a few weeks ago but I reckon Google has changed their > heuristics to keep the ever-so-clever-and-adaptive spammers out. > > Our exim4 logs show that the mail makes it TO gmail but no comments on why > it disappears: > 2014-11-25 11:33:26 1XtJzR-0005VW-7p => [email protected] R=dnslookup > T=remote_smtp H=aspmx.l.google.com [64.233.185.26] X= > TLS1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16 DN="C=US,ST=California,L=Mountain View,O=Google > Inc,CN=mx.google.com" > This log extract does _not_ show delivery. All it is showing is that it managed to do a MX lookup. > > We've tried adjusting the SPF record but that's confusing as hell :/ and > rather than taking stabs at updating the SPF blindly... there's gotta be a > guide to debugging this, somewhere. We've found lots of similar questions > with various random tips to try, but no "here's how to figure out what > Gmail's particular objection is". > Your SPF record needs to contain whatever FQDN or IP address that you are sending from, there's nothing really complicated about it. > > === > > So: what is the step-by-step procedure to find out WHY an > organization's gmail group refuses email from the organization's web > server? The web app can't broadcast messages to the gmail group, we want to > know WHY. > Try it by hand using telnet from your server, see if it accepts email. -- Marko -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
