[vox] So how do we make Gmail happy & get people back on these lists? :(

dugan at passwall.com dugan at passwall.com
Sat Mar 9 23:53:48 PST 2024


Forgot to specify the option to choose at gmail.com...

On 2024-03-09 23:48, dugan at passwall.com wrote:
[CHOP!]
> A suggestion for you all to test specific to gmail.com?
> Someone create or use a gmail.com account for email and have it 
> subscribe to "vox"
> Get someone else to send mail to the "vox" list as a test message from 
> a totally different domain: not gmail.com and not lugod.org.
> Use a desktop/laptop web browser, and go back to you gmail.com account 
> that was subscribed, look for the message your accomplice sent, and 
> select it.
> In the message view for that test message, look at near the "top right" 
> of the message where you may see:
> 
> $DATE_VALUE_STRING [a star icon to favorite this message] [an emoji 
> icon] [a reply-to icon]
> 
> In that line, to the far right notice the "options" with 3 squared dots 
> arranged in a vertical line. Select that option.


Choose "Show Original"


> A new view of the message should appear with useful header lines:
> SPF: (and status if any)
> DKIM: (and status if any)
> 
> You can use that to help you see what gmail is finding when users send 
> email from their own domains to the vox list.
> Let gmail.com tell you how email messages relayed to the list are 
> busted.
> 


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