[Harp-L] accounts suspended due to bounces, explanation below

owner-harp-l@xxxxx owner-harp-l@xxxxx
Wed Oct 1 09:31:16 EDT 2025


gmail has decided that harp-l is sending unwanted spam to our gmail
subscribers.  When messages bounce back to us as uindelivered our mail
program suspends the account after a number of bounces.  I cannot recall
the threshold, let's say 5.  The accounts don't go away the mail stops
being sent to them.  I've just manually reset 179 gmail accounts to mail
status.  We'll see if gmail calms down.  I have read their help online for
this situation, they claim it usually gets better.  In the meantime I will
work on getting our server provider to update our authentication for our
e-mail.

Gmail is not the only provider we are having trouble with, yahoo won't
deliver our messages but they don't bounce it back so no account reset. 
Comcast is also trouble.  There are maybe 3-4 isps involved but it's
actually less than that because yahoo runs other isps email as well as
their own yahoo branded version.  working on it, harp-l-listowner



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