Emails missing -- was this service down in Sept?

What is the name of the domain?

chriscortese.net

What is the error message?

no message, missing email

What is the issue you’re encountering

I found out an email sent to my domain on 9/3 never went through

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

For years I’ve had email sent to go to my real main email address. For years I did it within gmail but in recent years, I’ve done it through cloudflare as my dozen or so domains are all registered through cloudflare now.

Today (Oct. 11) I learned that an important email was sent to me on Sept. 3 and it never arrived.

So, I sent myself an email and had a friend send an email, to the chriscortese.net address, and both went through.

Was there an issue that’s since been fixed? If so, what was the window of time I wasn’t getting these emails? Or maybe there is some intermittent problem, or some other steps I should be taking??

Thanks.

As Email Routing through Cloudflare, towards a free [email protected] address?

Quick digging, the only thing I’m able to find form 2024-08-01T00:00:00Z, and onwards, is the issue with Microsoft’s Office 365 / Outlook (e.g. their free mails, hotmail.com, live.com & outlook.com variants):

Using Email Routing, Email Forwarding, or whatever you call it, can generally be discouraged, if you care about your email deliveries.

From one day to another, the bigger tech companies such as Microsoft (hotmail.com, live.com & outlook.com) and Google (gmail.com) are changing from hating you, to hating me instead, - or even both of us at once.

(You and me here can refer to the individual Email Routing / Email Forwarding service, such as e.g. Cloudflare Email Routing)

I would even go as far taking out the bigger tech companies from the equation, to signal that you’re not accepting such kind of behaviour.

If the final destination is refusing the delivery with a temporary error code (4xx), the message will be retried according to sender’s configuration, - where the most typical is re-trying for around 120 hours (5 days).

If it is a permanent error code (5xx) from the final destination, the message is lost unless sender is re-sending the message.

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Thanks. Yes, it was forwarding to my main gmail address.

I’m now trying to figure out who I gave that .net address to, then trying to contact them, and hope some of them have the original emails at least in “Sent” or someplace.

There is a possibility the 9/3 email went to spam, although I think that’s unlikely. Gmail is set to delete spam every 30 days so it would be gone.

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