[projectvrm] VRM LIST MAINTENANCE: gmail address problems

[Dean Landsman < >]

Attention List members:  Please note that subscribers with gmail addresses are showing an inordinate amount of bounced messages.

The list software will automatically remove subscribers with repeated bounce reports.

Analyzing the bounce report, it seems even list members who are active participants show multiple bounce events.  Please check your gmail spam folder to see if email from Project VRM is sitting there.  Often with gmail when enough mail from an address goes to spam, it starts to get rejected.

Also, if you are forwarding your gmail and opening it using a different address, the unopened gmail will be treated like unwanted mail, and begin to bounce.

Adding to the oddity of this is my own account, which shows bounce reports.  And yet I open the posts and have never move a Project VRM message into the spam folder.  Gmail thinks for itself, or so it seems.

Another alternative is to use a different email provider.  Yahoo addresses are not bouncing.  If you have a domain available to you, there is an approach many of the list members have taken, making a "> address for VRM or just "> for all such lists/newsletters, etc.

Thanks for your help with this.

Before doing a massive dump of bounced messages, 99% of which are gmail addresses, it seemed a wise idea to request that you look at this.

Any questions, just ask.

Thanks!

--Dean