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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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Mar 15, 2015 12:04 PM in response to aixen21

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification


THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.


YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.


Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:


***@icloud.com

Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)


Technical details of temporary failure:

Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain icloud.com by mx3.mail.icloud.com. [17.158.8.50].


The error that the other server returned was:

451 4.5.3 Too many rejections; try again later.

Mar 15, 2015 12:59 PM in response to aixen21

I'm making progress with this problem. I called apple again and spoke to a senior mail advisor. Somehow my mac mail account is tagged with having sent over 1000 messages in one day. I probably send about 20-30 emails a day, so something wrong. The apple guy is going to call me back within the hour after he investigates the problem. See the article below for information about limits. More when I hear back from him. --Pam


Mailbox size and message sending limits in iCloud - Apple Support

Gmail emails are delayed or not sending to iCloud

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