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Why is T-Mobile mail-to-SMS gateway sporadically blocking GMail?
I use the mail-to-SMS gateway to text me at different times of the day. For example, to alert me to do something on my to-do list, or to tell me if some long-running program on my PC, such as a back...
hepcat72 wrote:Davis_1377 wrote:
. If you don’t have a mac where you can run my applescript workaround to this problem, you have 2 options: tell the sprint/T-Mobile support people that they need to create a ticket with CloudMark to un-block the email address you’re sending from or switch carriers (which may be a faster fix than calling repeatedly until you get a TMo/Sprint support person who knows what CloudMark is).
Switching is not a real good option for me, so I'll complain. But the idea that every single person who has this issue has to request each and every sending address be white-listed is nuts. But even that doesn't solve all the issues.
Another data point, to show haw crappy CloudMark is: I created a new gmail address, one that can't possibly have been flagged for anything. I've been sending messages using this new account, and at first none were rejected, but they took hours, or days, to arrive. It's insane.
I just checked now for bounce messages, and now even this three-day-old address is getting blocked.
This goes way beyond spam filtering. This is just ineptitude.
To add insult to injury, this Website blocks me if I am using my self-hosted VPN. :) I have to disable it in order to get here and post. I think this is just another example of clueless "filtering"; my colo server must be in some "suspect" IP range so I just get blocked, absent any actual spamming behavior.
