My friend can't send .mac emails to my gmail address.

January 12, 2005 12:30 PM

My friend cannot send emails from his .mac address to my .gmail address. We can send emails back and forth routing to/from different addresses, so it's not our accounts individually. Anybody else have this problem?
posted by billysumday to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

If you'd like, privately email me the mac address and I'll be happy send a test message from my gmail account.
posted by AlexReynolds at 12:34 PM on January 12, 2005

What SMTP server is the .mac person using? Last I checked, .mac doesn't provide SMTP so they're probably using their ISP's instead. Gmail might have an overzealous spam checker that kills mails sent this way.

If you use the .mac webmail system rather than a regular POP/SMTP email client, does the email get through?
posted by bcwinters at 1:37 PM on January 12, 2005

Note: gmail is not accepting incoming mail right now, presumably due to a recently-released vulnerability. More details here.
posted by aberrant at 1:42 PM on January 12, 2005

what's the error report say (or does it just vanish)?
posted by andrew cooke at 1:49 PM on January 12, 2005

aberrant: Perhaps they fixed it, I'm receiving incoming Gmail just fine.
posted by sled at 1:49 PM on January 12, 2005

Just started flowing for me, too, at 13:49PT. Hopefully they did fix it, though it could be that the outage was unrelated to the published vulnerability.
posted by aberrant at 1:50 PM on January 12, 2005

Ugh, on second glance, nope:


gmail.com. 48m36s IN MX 10 gsmtp171.google.com.
gmail.com. 48m36s IN MX 10 gsmtp185.google.com.
gmail.com. 48m36s IN MX 20 gsmtp57.google.com.


All three mail exchangers instantly drop connects to port 25.
posted by aberrant at 1:52 PM on January 12, 2005

Response by poster: Thanks, aberrant. That looks like the culprit.
posted by billysumday at 2:24 PM on January 12, 2005