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Author: Mike Schmitz
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] meta: list
On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 09:14:31AM +0200, marc wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just a quick note that in the last week or so google seems
> have ratcheted up its rejection of mail from independent MTAs
> a notch or two.
>
> IF you check your logs, you might see 550 rejects with a message
> such as
>
> Our system has detected that this message is likely
> unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent
> to Gmail, this message has been blocked. Please visit
> https://support.google.com/mail/?p=UnsolicitedMessageError
> for more information.
>
> In this case this is for an IP+DNS combination that is known
> to never have sent spam. And of course the supreme irony of
> the matter is that google itself stands accused of injecting
> spam into people's email - see noyb.eu
>
> The first reaction is to be a bit bleak about this, but
> giving it some thought, there might be a silver lining to
> this: This might be a significant step in the split into
> "internet classic" the familiar favourite versus
> the "hinternet.google", the free, convenient, but
> also watered-down and shrinkflated version.
>
> Amusingly I think the DNG list here might have gotten
> a headstart on this, with its unconfigured reverse
> DNS entry - looking through the recent mails I see
> next to no participants from gmail.com - presumably
> because they haven't seen mail from here.


I use gmail, and seem to be getting email from this list. I wonder if it
is because I have it skip the inbox, and go straight into a different
label.

Mike Schmitz