On May 2, 2005 08:01 am, Russell McMahon wrote:
> I've started getting bounces of messages I send to GMail accounts.
> Not every message and not always to a given account. Bounces are from
> my local ISP for a range of reasons. Some messages have attachments,
> some don't. Some take 120+ hours to finally bounce. When the same
> email is sent to many accounts ALL the non-GMail addressed ones get
> through OK.
>
> While email is never guaranteed to get through, it very very largely
> does. I'd be concerned about the integrity of messages sent to GMail
> accounts. Maybe that's somebody's idea :-).
>
> Anyone else having GMail bounce issues?

Sometimes some ISPs get blackholed (block-ranges) due to spammers using 
my/your ISP as a launch base. in those cases, large ISPs such as yahoo, 
etc will put you (your ISP block-range) on a blacklist which your ISP 
has to remedy quickly otherwise more ISPs may join in in blocking your 
ISP.
When that happens, you may want to ask your provider about it.

I recall having sent yahoo some info about a month ago on some spammers 
using my account name as a send-to address and I couldn't get any info 
to yahoo due to blackholing. In speaking with my ISP, turned out some 
spammer had gotten into the system and had been launching massive 
amounts of junk mail, not via my website address, but via my hosting 
company's block range.
In other words, I was affected due to someone else's problem.
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