<story><title>Gmail having issues</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=issue&amp;sid=1&amp;iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>windexh8er</author><text>Just got this from the ProtonMail team:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Dear ProtonMail user,&lt;p&gt;Starting at around 4:30PM New York (10:30PM Zurich), Gmail suffered a global outage.&lt;p&gt;A catastrophic failure at Gmail is causing emails sent to Gmail to permanently fail and bounce back. The error message from Gmail is the following:&lt;p&gt;550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.&lt;p&gt;This is a global issue, and it impacts all email providers trying to send email to Gmail, not just ProtonMail.&lt;p&gt;Because Gmail is sending a permanent failure, our mail servers will not automatically retry sending these messages (this is standard practice at all email services for handling permanent failures).&lt;p&gt;We are closely monitoring the situation. At this time, little can be done until Google fixes the problem. We recommend attempting to resend the messages to Gmail users when Google has fixed the problem. You can find the latest status from Google&amp;#x27;s status page:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;appsstatus#hl=en&amp;amp;v=issue&amp;amp;sid=1&amp;amp;iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;appsstatus#hl=en&amp;amp;v=issue&amp;amp;sid=1&amp;amp;iid=a8...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Best Regards,
The ProtonMail Team&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>octoberfranklin</author><text>This is the Nightmare Scenario for mailing lists.&lt;p&gt;Many of them auto-unsubscribe after a bounce.</text></comment>
<story><title>Gmail having issues</title><url>https://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&amp;v=issue&amp;sid=1&amp;iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>windexh8er</author><text>Just got this from the ProtonMail team:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;Dear ProtonMail user,&lt;p&gt;Starting at around 4:30PM New York (10:30PM Zurich), Gmail suffered a global outage.&lt;p&gt;A catastrophic failure at Gmail is causing emails sent to Gmail to permanently fail and bounce back. The error message from Gmail is the following:&lt;p&gt;550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.&lt;p&gt;This is a global issue, and it impacts all email providers trying to send email to Gmail, not just ProtonMail.&lt;p&gt;Because Gmail is sending a permanent failure, our mail servers will not automatically retry sending these messages (this is standard practice at all email services for handling permanent failures).&lt;p&gt;We are closely monitoring the situation. At this time, little can be done until Google fixes the problem. We recommend attempting to resend the messages to Gmail users when Google has fixed the problem. You can find the latest status from Google&amp;#x27;s status page:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;appsstatus#hl=en&amp;amp;v=issue&amp;amp;sid=1&amp;amp;iid=a8b67908fadee664c68c240ff9f529ab&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.google.com&amp;#x2F;appsstatus#hl=en&amp;amp;v=issue&amp;amp;sid=1&amp;amp;iid=a8...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Best Regards,
The ProtonMail Team&lt;/i&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CapriciousCptl</author><text>Interesting response. And spot on from the technical integrity side. It’s also more fair to email providers as a whole to treat them all the same and respect their error messages. I mean, maybe there’s even requirements in some jurisdictions to deal with the address not found error in a specific way. As an email sender I think I’d prefer the message get auto re-sent after Gmail comes back online though.</text></comment>