outgoing emails to gmail

[#1]

I have a legacy Madasafish email address ending with icscotland.net Over the last week I have noticed issues with receiving and sending emails.  I am not abe to send and receive emails but cannot sent to gmail accounts.  My account is a standalone so no plus net domain, or ano other for that matter.  I have adjusted varous server settings as suggested but this is still not working.  Any help would be appreciated

[#2]

@GlassySue Are you still with Plusnet?

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@GlassySue this thread https://community.plus.net/t5/Email/Cannot-send-to-gmail-addresses/td-p/1934005 probably explains why you have a problem sending to Gmail. I suspect the icscotland.net visp domain doesn't have SPF or DKIM . If that's the case then I'm afraid you probably need to consider an alternative email provider.

One thing that MIGHT just work is to replace the gmail.com with Google mail.com in the. destination address. They reference the same mailbox but the checks on Google mail addresses can be less stringent

[#4]

Should that be 'googlemail.com', @MisterW ?

[#5]

I was never officially with Plusnet, I can;t remember the original email provider but it was taken over by someone then by Madasafish and then Plusnet so a real legacy email.

[#6]

not really tech savvy as far as this is concerned, do you mean change the persons email address that I am trying to send to or something to do with my own email?

[#7]

OK, so I gather from that your ISP (now) is someone else? No matter, as @MisterW says, try putting 'googlemail.com' , rather than 'gmail.com'.

[#8]

would also be interested in trying to understand why this has only happened in the last week.

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@GlassySue wrote:

not really tech savvy as far as this is concerned, do you mean change the persons email address that I am trying to send to or something to do with my own email?

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Yep - change their address to 'whoever@googlmail.com'

[#10]

The wonders of gmail, I'm afraid.

[#11 · Accepted solution]

Should that be 'googlemail.com'

@jab1 thanks , yes it should be, ( I blame the spool chucker )

would also be interested in trying to understand why this has only happened in the last week.

@GlassySue to explain, SPF & DKIM are advisory standards that have been introduced over the last few years in an attempt to reduce the volume of spam email. The problem is that google ( and microsoft hotmail to some extent ) have unlilaterally decided that these standards will be mandatory for email sent to their mail systems. They've been gradually introducing the requirement accross their systems over many months. So I suspect the requiremnt has recently been applied to the gmail address to which you are sending.