Hi,

Please share the Domain name and IP address that is having the issues so that 
we can better assist. If possible, can you also share the email header of an 
email that is failing.

As for the error,  Gmail is clearly seeing an issue with the domain in the SPF 
and DKIM records. It is very possible that the SPF while correct, has too much 
calls and does not complete the check.

They have posted in their guide that in April 2024, they will start to BLOCK 
emails that do not have the following 
(https://support.google.com/a/answer/14229414?hl=en#bulk-sender-def&expiration&bulk-sender-comply&email-to-ws&ws-senders&timeline&timeline-new&from-header&reqs-not-met&alerts&error-codes&spam-rate&spam-exceeds&one-click-all-msgs&unsub-noshow&promotional&why-one-click&one-click-rfc8058&no-one-click&unsub-msg-body&no-unsub-spam&more-unsubscribe-links&howlong-unsubscribe&prevent-unsubscribe-all&unsub-unavailable&mailto&landing-page&dmarc-align&dmarc-fail&mitigation&mitigation-eligible&:~:text=Sender%20guidelines%20enforcement):

The table below describes the enforcement timeline and will be updated as 
needed:
Sender requirement
Enforcement
SPF and DKIM authentication
Gmail From: header impersonation
From: header alignment
Valid forward and reverse DNS records
Messages formatted according RFC 5322
Messages sent using TLS
Temporary failures with error codes


Starting in April 2024, we'll begin rejecting non-compliant traffic. Rejection 
will be gradual and will impact non-compliant traffic only. We strongly 
recommend senders use the temporary failure enforcement period to make any 
changes required to become compliant.
Enforcement for these requirements will begin no earlier than June 2024:

  *   DMARC record with a minimum policy of none (p=none). Learn more about 
DMARC record 
values<https://support.google.com/a/answer/2466563#dmarc-record-tags>.
  *   One-click unsubscribe in marketing messages
  *   Mitigations unavailable when user-reported spam rates exceed 0.3% or if 
the sender has not met the authentication or one-click unsubscribe requirements.

Gmail is blocking you based on the information above and your error.


Michael Irvine

From: mailop <mailop-boun...@mailop.org> On Behalf Of Simon Branch via mailop
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2024 01:26
To: mailop@mailop.org
Subject: [mailop] Ongoing issue with sending emails to Gmail / Google hosted 
domains from our MS 365 Tenant

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Hello,

This is my second time of posting about this issue, which involves messages 
sent from our MS 365 Tenant being rejected by Google's mail servers.

Around the beginning of April, several of our users started to get messages 
bouncing back, when sending messages to Google-hosted domains.

The error received each time was as follows:

Error:
550 5.7.350 Remote server returned message detected as spam -> 550 5.7.1 
[2a01:111:f403:261b::701 19] Gmail has detected that this message;is likely 
suspicious due to the very low reputation of the sending;domain. To best 
protect our users from spam, the message has been;blocked. For more 
information, go to; https://support.google.com/mail/answer/188131 
af79cd13be357-792cf65c157si1015450885a.765 - gsmtp
Message rejected by:
mx.google.com

The same would happen when sending to any Gmail account.

The first thing I checked was the SPF, DKIM and DMARC records, but found they 
were all correct.

So, I contacted Microsoft 365 Support for assistance. They looked at the 
message, immediately blamed Google, and told me to speak to them.

Unfortunately, there is no one to speak to at Google, unless your domain is 
hosted with them. So I filled out several of Google's email case reports, none 
of which have been acted upon.

Microsoft have tripled checked the SPF, DKIM and DMARC records and have 
confirmed they are all correct and are baffled as to why it is not working.

Each time I am told that it is a 'Google Problem' and we need to get out domain 
whitelisted by them.

We are now in the position whereby mails sent to these domains are either 
rejected outright by Google's servers or end up in users' Spam folders.

I registered with Google Postmaster Tools a few weeks ago and finally got some 
analysis a few days ago, as follows:

SPF and DKIM authentication
Needs work - Set up both SPF and DKIM authentication.
SPF prevents spammers from sending unauthorised messages that appear to be from 
your domain. Receiving servers use DKIM to verify that the domain owner 
actually sent the message.
From: header alignment
Needs work - Ensure that the From: header aligns with either SPF or DKIM
For direct mail, the domain in the sender's From: header must be aligned with 
either the SPF domain or the DKIM domain. This is required to pass DMARC 
alignment.
DMARC authentication
Compliant
Encryption
Compliant
User-reported spam rate
Compliant
DNS records
Compliant

The above makes no sense to me, as it is suggested there is an issue with the 
SPF and DKIM records and that the From header, yet all are correct.

Everything else on the Google Postmaster Tools passes.

Has anyone seen this before, and if so, is there a solution, as neither 
Microsoft, nor Google will assist?

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Simon

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