GMail slowness on DreamHost

[tuqqer]

I couldn't figure out why so few of my emails were getting through, and I finally saw on DreamHost this morning:

Gmail Forwarding slowness (UPDATED)
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago (November 17th, 2007 at 2:17 pm PST) by kitchen

Severity: Medium Resolved: No
Right now we are experiencing some slowdowns sending emails to Google’s GMail service. This only appears to be affecting mail being forwarded through our systems, and not sending directly through an email client using our mail servers. We believe the slowdown to be on Google’s end, however we are actively investigating the situation to see if there’s something wrong on our end causing the slowdown.

Again, email sent directly from an email client such as Thunderbird, Mac Mail, or Outlook should make it to GMail in a timely fashion, it is only mail being forwarded through our servers (forwarding-only addresses in the web panel) that is currently being affected.

Update: The mail queues are back down to normal now, and things appear to be running smoothly again!

Update: (11/28/2007 10:15 PST) Unfortunately it looks like this problem is back. Our admins are working to resolve it now. Messages are flowing, but the queue is quite backed up at the moment so it’s going to take some time.

Update: (11/29/2007 3:00 PST) We’ve moved all outgoing gmail forwards to their own server so that they’ll have dedicated processing time without affecting the rest of outgoing mail. The outgoing mail queue is still pretty full, but it’s steadily decreasing. We’re in contact with a Google support representative to get this resolved permanently. Mail to Gmail forwards are being delayed, but they are going through. A temporary workaround is to point your email forwards to a non-Gmail address or local DreamHost mailbox, as those are not affected by the delay. We’re sorry for the problems this causes you, and we’re doing all that we can to resolve this.

Here's the link to the comments:
http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2007/11/1.../#comments

[M A V I C]

I hope this doesn't turn into something worse. I have a subdomain catch-all that I forward to a gmail account to use it as a spam filter, and then forward that back to me. It catches about 30-40 spam emails/day. Plus I use it to forward to me because they killed Comcast forwarding a while ago.

[stephen]

I noticed this yesterday. I started using my old backup Yahoo account for the first time in ages. Reminds me of why I like gmail.

[tuqqer]

Update Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 7:37 AM

Seems that the floodgates have been opened and the problem fixed. I think I'm getting all my mail again.