I am not able to use my IEEE alias with google. They just provide a
shadow email address and all the mail from it is forwarded to ones
account. The problem is it doesn't work. On contacting IEEE tis is the
response I got.
Your IEEE member alias is working OK and forwarding emails to your
Gmail
account, the only problem is Gmail is not showing the messages in your
mailbox.
Gmail has implemented a spam filter that addresses Open Relay issues.
An
open relay (sometimes called a third-party relay) is an email server
that
allows third-party relay of e-mail messages. By processing mail that
is
neither for nor from a local user, an open relay makes it possible for
an
unscrupulous sender to route large volumes of spam.
If your IEEE alias is set to forward email to a Gmail account and you
send
email from your Gmail.com account to your IEEE alias. Gmail sees such
email
as an open relay and not delivering the email to your mailbox.
Technically
the message looks like it originates from Gmail, and passed to the
internet
but returned back to the sender as the final recipient.
You should not experience any problem with email delivery if the email
arrives through other domain (i.e. Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail).
Member are advice not to send test emails from their Gmail account to
their
IEEE alias if their members alias are set to forwards emails to a
Gmail.com
account, because Gmail.com always suspect such email as possible open
relay and never deliver such message.
You need to contact Gmail support technical assistance on the issue.
Hopefully, the google guys do something about it.
