Forwarding to Gmail accounts block?

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 12:31 pm

Has anyone heard about forwarding to Gmail accounts being blocked?

When I logged into Cpanel today there was a message from host saying:

Quote:

Yahoo - AOL - MSN - Gmail - Hotmail - Lycos - Mail Forwarding is not allowed!
Please DO NOT forward any emails from your domain name to any of the above thirdparty email addresses.
They do not allow email forwarding to there servers, and will block the whole server from sending email to them.

BTW this is not Raven's hosting.

I did a quick Google but couldn't find anyone talking about this. Confused

Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 2:39 pm

Never heard of it. I find it really hard to believe they would ALL be blocking forwarding.

Is it even possible to tell the difference auto forwarding and me just forwarding it?

registered · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 5:35 pm

If its true, that is NOT a good thing as I do this from many accounts so that I have one place to go to in order to see all that is going on... Sad

I certainly cannot afford to have my server blocked either. Yikes!

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 7:20 am

oo.You are sure about that?. Mines redirecting to Gmail account. me[at]united-holy-dragons.net for instance forwards email to me[at]gmail.com , though I have another gmail account on which i have my domain name.

Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 1:17 pm

I'm guessing here as I know Jakec's host ...
I don't think it's that those mail services (GMail, Hotmal etc) don't allow forwarded mail, I think it's more likely that forwarded spam to those services can potential get the server IP blocked.

To explain more fully...
Fred Bloggs sends you an email to your main account me@myrealsite.com
Your forward mail from myrealsite.com to something@gmail.com

If Fred had sent you spam, you have now unwittingly passed tha spam through Gmails servers with a good chance it will get trapped as spam - problem is it came from your good account and not the original spammer.

Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 4:47 pm

ok , I see what you meant , however gmail can read haders and always puts up the right email in my account. It is not true with hotmail.

I've seen a old/new feature recently. Instead of forwarding email , I just used Gmail to fetch my domain mail directly in gmail. That way it doesn't skip the spam folder as it use to do.