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Error message leads to cancelled emails, unverified accounts, potential email loss
Tim Anderson
Wed 16 Dec 2020 // 17:29 UTC
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A Google Mail outage yesterday saw the cloud giant's server respond with the message "the email account that you tried to reach does not exist," potentially causing the sending server to give up, or remove the email address from lists, rather than trying again later.
The outage lasted from around 21:30 UTC until just before midnight UTC according to the company's status report, and it affected a "significant subset of users."
Email outages are annoying and disruptive; but while email has never been a system that guarantees delivery, most do arrive at their destination eventually unless classified (rightly or wrongly) as spam. If there is an error such as a server offline, it will be automatically retried after an interval. Google unfortunately made this less likely, by responding with the message "550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist." This can cause the sending server to give up immediately, and may also cause the address to be removed from circulation lists.

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