Having Trouble with Googlemail – Update
Google support reacted quite quickly. It seems to be a feature! Whenever a mail is sent to an address which is then redirected to the GMail Account it is suppressed to avoid mailfloods…
OK, it is true. I have some strange e-mail setup. I have different accounts at different providers, I have e-mail addresses at serveral domains where I run my own mailservers.
So what do I do for convenience reasons is: I forward most of my e-mail accounts to a Gmail account. And the for backup reasons I have the gmail account to forward a copy of each incoming mail to some other mailaccount on one of my servers.
This setup worked quite well. But for some time now someone changed something. There seems to be some sort of Bermuda Triangle within my personal Cloud!
Whenever I send an e-mail from my gmail account to an address on one of my domains address@maildomain , the following happens.
- Gmail accepts the e-mail
- E-Mail is delivered to my domains mailserver server.maildomain
- Mailserver forwards the mail to gmail
- E-mail is lost. It does not appear in my gmail inbox nor in my backup mailaccount.
- If I send an e-mail from some other account to my address@maildomain
- server.maildomain accepts e-mail and forwards it to gmail
- gmail displays the mail in my inbox
- gmail forwards it to otheraccount@maildomain
- server.maildomain accepts the message and stores it in my backupaccount…
Please Google: Fix your servers or tell my why what I am doing is wrong!