Thank you very much!
I changed my forum email to gmail and sent myself a PM, which I promptly received in my gmail inbox.
Added: I also successfully received a email reply to my message from gmail to my EuroGA inbox.
Could someone who is using gmail send a PM to themselves and confirm that it gets delivered to them (by email)?
Many thanks 
It’s quite fashionable to use “google hosted email” (which may or may not be [email protected]). But then it’s also fashionable to use AWS for web and other server hosting but amazon is one of the sh1ttiest companies in IT, with virtually zero customer service
The reality is that a lot of SPF is not correctly set up, but google thinks (correctly) it can be arrogant.
Peter wrote:
most people use gmail
I use gmail as a spam filter when I have to register something unimportant, I use gmail. Later on when they start to send ads or when this address is leaked, no harm is done because this mail account is mainly useless to me. I really feel sorry for people who use gmail as their primary email account.
Google has just implemented a hard policy on requiring either SPF or DKIM. And it absolutely dumps everything else regardless of content or whether the sender is “whitelisted” which according to “various suggestions” (nobody actually knows) is done by setting up a folder for the sender.
This is dumb but google owns the world now and most people use gmail so they got you by the balls. SPF is impossible to fix once and for all time but most domain hosting services which offer email sending also offer free DKIM.
SPF, I’ve been around many times and it should be right for *@euroga.org. DKIM likewise. DMARC, I have not played with.
But as you know none of this is clear cut. DKIM just proves the domain in the From: header has config access to the DNS record of that domain. I could set up iamaconman.com and send out emails with perfect SPF and perfect DKIM.
Nobody “real” should be dumping incoming emails because DKIM doesn’t match… what about a sender on gmail.com ??
Gmail has a long history of crap “rules” e.g. a one word email (to a long term established recipient) would be dumped every time, 2+ words would be ok. Only a committee which has way too many sofas could have come up with something that stupid
If you have configured SPF/DKIM/DMARC correctly, then the only reason I can think of is that your mail server IP may be blacklisted somewhere:
Check here:
https://www.dnsbl.info/
(most of these blacklist providers give instructions on how to remove your IP from their lists if it is a false positive)
If not, make sure you configure SPF/DKIM/DMARC correctly:
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/email-security/dmarc-dkim-spf/
Does anyone know if the above whitelisting advice for gmail is still current?
