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It begins: Google retiring inactive accounts

Google first  warned earlier this year that they're going to retire accounts that haven't been accessed at all in the past two years. This affects Gmail accounts -- if nobody's home, no emails have been read, nothing's going on, Google is now likely to shut dow…

Gmail: New spam-related rejections and what you need to know

Gmail has very recently unveiled a series of new deferral/rejection messages. You may want to familiarize yourself with the following new SMTP responses: 421 4.7.28 Our system has detected an unusual rate of unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our user…

Gmail: Status, Changes, and Challenges

There's no two ways about it -- it truly is getting trickier to deliver email to Gmail lately. There's a lot going on here -- from the recent past, to what's happening today, through to the very near future. Let me jump right into it, starting with changes that are …

DMARC to be required at Gmail in 2024

If you dig into the newly published upcoming sender requirements from Google , you'll unearth three points that relate to DMARC. These are important enough that I wanted to highlight them specifically. First, note that Gmail is moving to a "p=quarantine" policy fo…

Gmail now rejecting unauthenticated mail

Gmail has long pushed for adoption of email authentication best practices from email senders, effectively making it tough to get to the inbox without proper email authentication in place. They also, for years now, have been very cautious about what mail they accept over IPv6 , …

Gmail may ask for verification to add a forwarding address or edit filters

The Verge reports on a new change announced by Google : There's now a good chance they'll ask you to verify your login when you change certain Gmail settings, adjusting things like IMAP email access or adding email forwarding to a new address. Here's the details fro…

Google purging inactive accounts (and notifying the world)

As mentioned before , Google's planning to disable and delete accounts that have been inactive for two years or longer; they promise not to start doing this until December; they have been warning every Google user of this change via email; and they promise to further notify…

Google notification: Updating our Google Account inactivity policy

As mentioned before , Google is now going to retire accounts gone inactive for at least two years. Indeed, Google just today sent me an email notice explaining this in some detail, which I thought would be handy to share here. For Google, of course, the focus of this messaging …

Nope. No Gmail feedback loop, sorry.

A friend asked recently why they're not receiving feedback loop complaint data back from Gmail subscribers. After all, she pointed out, Gmail does indeed have a Feedback Loop, does it not? What's up with that? If you're lucky, your sending platform is already confi…

Gmail puts BIMI on pause while addressing exploit

Google seems to have put Gmail's BIMI logo checking (and the new blue checkmark ) on hold temporarily starting perhaps on Monday, June 5th, while they roll out a fix to address an exploit that was allowing bad guys to spoof authentication on mail sent from certain platform…

Mimestream: New Gmail client for Mac launches

Everybody's all abuzz about the new Mac desktop-specific email client made just for Gmail. Various folks that have tried it seem to be raving about how great it is. I manage so many mailboxes that I don't know that I want to get into an email client that supports on Gma…

BIMI: Check out the new checkmark in Gmail

Hey, look at that! Gmail is starting to show a blue checkmark next to the sender name when the sender's domain passes BIMI checks. And they provide helpful pop-up info when you mouse over the blue checkmark. This rolls out starting today (May 3, 2023) so if you don't se…

Gmail: More RFC 5322 bounces coming-- helping to impede DKIM replay attacks

A few days ago, Google started notifying (some) Google Workspace customers of updated spam filter/blocking changes coming to the Gmail email service. They're moving to more proactively block emails that have headers violating RFC 5322, and it is believed that this is an att…

Google Workspace mail going to spam or bulk? 5 Tips

Are emails sent from your G-Suite/Google Workspace corporate email account going to the spam folder (particularly, at Gmail or Microsoft-hosted domains)? Here's possible reasons why and what to do about it. Make sure you, or your IT person or domain administrator, has fully…

Does Gmail use Spamhaus? Or any other blocklists?

This is a question I get a lot. Does Gmail use any blocklists? Or, somebody will tell me that they're having Gmail issues, and they've plugged their own IP address into an online blocklist lookup tool , and they are sure that any results found (blocklisting issues) must…

Gmail Verified (Political) Sender Program Pilot Shutting Down

Axios, the Washington Post, and others are reporting that the Gmail political email pilot program is coming to an end. Axios buries the lede on this one -- putting the important bit (to me) at the very end: "Google's pilot email program, which saw more than 100 politi…

Gmail: Weird RFC 5322 bounces and what to do about them

Here is the scenario. Maybe you've just gotten a bounce message that looks like this: Aug 25 11:20:24 s1 postfix/smtp[26906]: 98299221BB: to=<x@gmail.com>, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[142.250.141.27]:25, delay=1.2, delays=0.04/0.77/0.2/0.21, dsn=5.7.1, status=bou…

Reminder: Dots don't matter in Gmail addresses

Here's what is sure to be your favorite fun factoid forever from today: At Gmail -- for the domains gmail.com and googlemail.com -- whether or not the username portion has dots in it is irrelevant. If you send mail to al.iverson.mailbox@gmail.com and aliversonmailbox@gmail.…

What is Gmail clipping and what to do about it

Message "clipping" at Gmail is when your email message is so large that Gmail won't display the whole thing on one page. It'll show part of the message, then it'll be cut off, saying "[Message clipped]" and giving you an opportunity to click to v…