Using GMail for notifications

  • I’ve been using GMail to receive notifications from websites and one host has now prevented that from happening. Is this commonplace with other hosting providers? Is my (no doubt stupid) mistake in using GMail for this purpose such a rare thing? Otherwise lots of people are going to be massively impacted by this. I’m probably in deep doodah with this, so go easy on me.

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  • I’ve been using GMail to receive notifications from websites

    Do you mean you’ve configured your website to use a Gmail account to SEND out those notifications from your website? Or are you simply receiving the notifications into your Gmail inbox?

    Thread Starter alarch

    (@alarch)

    Simply receiving notifications. Is this a very unusual (bad) thing to do?

    Thread Starter alarch

    (@alarch)

    I would appreciate some support on this.

    Using any 3rd party site to receive eMails is not unusual or bad. I’m wondering why you say “one host has prevented this” and how you know that for sure. I’m also presuming you’ve checked the Spam folder in gMail to make sure they are not ending there.

    Thread Starter alarch

    (@alarch)

    I received direct communication from the MD. It’s a small company. The essence of the argument is that notifications causes some mail server IPs to be rate-limited resulting in emails being queued until the limit has been reset. A good example of this is Gmail accounts. Gmail only allows a mail server to connect to their servers a maximum of 100 times per hour.

    Has anyone else come across limitations such as this with hosting services?

    So in essence, the Hoster is saying that sending to gMail zero time per hr. is better than 100 times per hr. Makes no sense to me.

    Sounds like you only have two options: find another 3rd party eMail service or another Hoster.

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