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

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

billysumday — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:30:10 -0800

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?

By: AlexReynolds

AlexReynolds — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:34:20 -0800

If you'd like, privately email me the mac address and I'll be happy send a test message from my gmail account.

By: bcwinters

bcwinters — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:37:06 -0800

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?

By: aberrant

aberrant — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:42:36 -0800

Note: gmail is not accepting incoming mail right now, presumably due to a recently-released vulnerability. More details here.

By: andrew cooke

andrew cooke — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:49:27 -0800

what's the error report say (or does it just vanish)?

By: sled

sled — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:49:36 -0800

aberrant: Perhaps they fixed it, I'm receiving incoming Gmail just fine.

By: aberrant

aberrant — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:50:40 -0800

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.

By: aberrant

aberrant — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:52:21 -0800

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.

By: billysumday

billysumday — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:24:59 -0800

Thanks, aberrant. That looks like the culprit.