Since I'm using another tier of spam filtering directly at my hosting provider I got load down on my servers considerably… and I lost mails from GMAIL users.

As that service called "Spirus" was also configured to use SpamCop blacklists, just yesterday a client called me to ask about some issues he mailed on Tuesday…

Then I got this error message forward to my own gmail account

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Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:

myfirstname AT mylastname.com

Message will be retried for 1 more day(s)

Technical details of temporary failure:

TEMP_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): 550-rejected Blocked – see http://www.spamcop.net/bl.shtml?64.233.166.180

550 (64.233.166.180)

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Well – and this spamcop link tells you that SpamCop users have reported the system as a source of spam about 10 times in the past week…

Woho… that means I've been filtering a ton of spam mails from gmail, including those of my clients…

I am well aware that the gmail service is a fine one, but it's a free mailer just as hotmail and yahoo and that's why it cannot be trusted a bit more than those services…

I went ahead and whitelisted that client… close to whitelisting Gmail in general – but hey – it's a free mailer – full of spam….

What do you think? Can Gmail be trusted more than hotmail & yahoo just because it's made by Google?