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Scott Kitterman spake thusly on 11/29/2006 12:26 PM:
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 14:20, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
>> Not really,
>> I use another SMTP server . See, when Gmail find that the SMTP server
>> sending the mail is itself and the sender is you, it take it like a bug
>> which would create a loop so it doesn't take it on the mailbox.
>>
>> a solution is to use a different SMTP server to send your mail (even
>> though it's with the gmail address) . But i kinda think there was a
>> setting you would do in gmail to get those mail ... hmm.. I don't
>> remember at all
>>
> Well, except that Gmail publishes an SPF record saying where authorized mail 
> comes from:
> 
> $ dig -ttxt gmail.com
> 
> ; <<>> DiG 9.3.2 <<>> -ttxt gmail.com
> ;; global options:  printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7878
> ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
> 
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;gmail.com.                     IN      TXT
> 
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> gmail.com.        224     IN      TXT     "v=spf1 redirect=_spf.google.com"
> 
> ;; Query time: 11 msec
> ;; SERVER: 192.168.111.254#53(192.168.111.254)
> ;; WHEN: Wed Nov 29 14:23:46 2006
> ;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 71
> 
> This means that sending from another SMTP server is going to look suspicious 
> to some.  See:
> 
> http://www.openspf.org/
> 

I have to say that this is the only fault I find with Gmail. Otherwise
it's miles ahead of the competition.

But I find it a *big* problem. So much so that I abandoned Gmail for use
with mailing lists.  There have been numerous complaints to Google on
the subject and I've read discussions on the subject several times in
Gmail groups.

Google is convinced that it's a "feature".  I don't know of anyone else
who agrees.




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