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Re:Gmail having issues by LinuxBender on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @06:07PM (#25436606)
They should be returning 421 for backend outages so that sending servers queue and retry the emails. 550 can be interpreted by some as deleted [1] or even banned accounts in some cases. Maybe someone here could convince them to change the logic that occurs during an outage.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_SMTP_server_return_cod...

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Re:Gmail having issues by mlyle on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @07:05PM (#25437213)
Yah. Maybe there's an unexpected way that things can fail resulting in 550's. But maybe at Google's scale you should have some kind of kill switch to stop answering SMTP or to not send permanent errors at all, so that you could flip a switch and prevent the worst consequences of this rather than let it go on for a couple of hours.
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Re:Gmail having issues by octoberfranklin on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:40PM (#25438001)
Absolutely this.

I am astonished that either (a) this switch has not been flipped yet or (b) this switch does not exist.

Somebody is incompetent here.

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Re:Gmail having issues by mrich on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:52PM (#25438073)
Perhaps Gmail is just being discontinued ;)
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Re:Gmail having issues by octoberfranklin on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:35AM (#25440612)
don't get my hopes up!
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