Q: Gmail emails are delayed or not sending to iCloud

A very strange issue started out of the blue a couple of days ago. I have my gmail account forwarding to my iCloud (me.com). My friend asked me if I got his email the other day, never went through. After some testing I found out that all of a sudden Gmail messages are not being forwarded or sent to my iCloud. Some are even bouncing back. Any idea what the problem might be? Why would it start out of the blue?

Posted on Mar 13, 2015 6:21 AM

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by aixen21,

aixen21 Mar 15, 2015 1:02 PM in response to xaipete
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Mar 15, 2015 1:02 PM in response to xaipete

Strange. I don't even come close to that! When you talk to them, can you ask if this is something they are working on fixing for everyone? If this is the cause, that is...
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by xaipete,Helpful

xaipete Mar 15, 2015 1:05 PM in response to aixen21
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Mar 15, 2015 1:05 PM in response to aixen21

I already told the apple guy about the rest of the people in this discussion with exactly the same problem. I'll report back with everything he tells me. Pam
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by aixen21,

aixen21 Mar 15, 2015 1:11 PM in response to xaipete
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Mar 15, 2015 1:11 PM in response to xaipete

Excellent, thank you, Pam!
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by yosh8585,

yosh8585 Mar 15, 2015 2:31 PM in response to aixen21
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Mar 15, 2015 2:31 PM in response to aixen21

Lame. I'm going to dump icloud if this is what they do. I don't send any mail through icloud. It is either forwarded from gmail or sent through gmails servers. The only reason I have icloud is for push on my iOS devices.
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by Csound1,

Csound1 Mar 15, 2015 2:41 PM in response to yosh8585
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Mar 15, 2015 2:41 PM in response to yosh8585

OK.
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by yosh8585,

yosh8585 Mar 15, 2015 2:44 PM in response to Csound1
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Mar 15, 2015 2:44 PM in response to Csound1

Weak point is Apple - see MobileMe
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by aixen21,

aixen21 Mar 15, 2015 2:47 PM in response to yosh8585
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Mar 15, 2015 2:47 PM in response to yosh8585

MobileMe was a flawed product. Apple acknowledged that and moved on from it. iCloud has been far superior to it, and as a long time user, fairly stable. I think that's an emotional statement not based on fact. Every company has its hiccups. Google knows very well about this.
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by Csound1,

Csound1 Mar 15, 2015 3:27 PM in response to yosh8585
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Mar 15, 2015 3:27 PM in response to yosh8585

yosh8585 wrote:

Weak point is Apple - see MobileMe

You are free to believe whatever you choose to.
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by xaipete,

xaipete Mar 15, 2015 3:29 PM in response to aixen21
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Mar 15, 2015 3:29 PM in response to aixen21

The senior apple mail tech really tried to find the problem. He sent the a ticket to the engineering department to find out why my email account is showing that I sent so many emails (1000+), but he's not sure that that number he's seeing is the actual problem. I'm just going to have to wait until I get an answer from engineering. In the meantime, I checked google mail forums and noted that others have the problem too. It's always the same scenario: problems sending from gmail to iCloud. Interesting to note that it's only a problem for me if I try to send to my own iCloud account. I can send mail to other iCloud accounts. Pam
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by xaipete,

xaipete Mar 15, 2015 3:38 PM in response to aixen21
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Mar 15, 2015 3:38 PM in response to aixen21

https://productforums.google.com/forum

search for 451 icloud

You will see a lot of other people having this same problem.

Pam
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by Brent Rossow,

Brent Rossow Mar 15, 2015 3:45 PM in response to aixen21
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Mar 15, 2015 3:45 PM in response to aixen21

FWIW, the same thing is happening to me -- can't get email from my wife, who uses Gmail. She thought I was just ignoring her, but a couple days later she started getting the "Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed" emails. Tried sending myself a message via Gmail earlier today and it hasn't come through yet, either.

A couple weeks ago I got a few delivery failure messages for emails I definitely didn't send -- someone spammed others using my email address (account wasn't compromised, just used my address as the From) and I wonder if it's connected....
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by xaipete,

xaipete Mar 15, 2015 3:46 PM in response to Brent Rossow
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Mar 15, 2015 3:46 PM in response to Brent Rossow

Could be connected. Something odd is definitely going on. Pam
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by Patrick2165,

Patrick2165 Mar 15, 2015 4:04 PM in response to aixen21
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Mar 15, 2015 4:04 PM in response to aixen21

Having the exact same issue. Emails from gmail to @me are delayed 12+ hours ... just starting to receive them now.
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by xaipete,

xaipete Mar 15, 2015 4:28 PM in response to Brent Rossow
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Mar 15, 2015 4:28 PM in response to Brent Rossow

In my case I do think it's time warner. I have sent them an email and a case has been opened.

email-support@postmaster.rr.com
blockinfo@postmaster.rr.com
blockhelp@postmaster.rr.com

check out your ISP

--Pam
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by yosh8585,

yosh8585 Mar 15, 2015 4:50 PM in response to xaipete
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Mar 15, 2015 4:50 PM in response to xaipete

What does ISP have to do with third party email? I have the same problem regardless of the originating connection.
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