If you choose to host your email with Google, it's up to you to fix your email delivery settings (or find a better provider) for your domain.
Social network is not good for the poor guy. I already regret replying to him in the first place but I cannot delete.
Comments like this are why he's just landed himself with a major liability and I bet he'll be getting sued over this.
TFA shows an excerpt from the email log for his google workspace account, showing the bounce of email sent from viva.com.
Then, TFA states that he switched "the account" (his viva.com account) from using his GWorkspace address to a personal @gmail.com address, and asked viva to send another verification email. That one arrived.
At no point does TFA describe the author themselves sending a test email.
It amazes me that you can read an article and draw the exact wrong conclusions
What test email? I see no mention of a test email in the blog post. The mail that bounced was the one with the verification link from Viva.
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Of course, they do have leverage over “marketing email” senders since they can block it and no one will complain, so those senders always have impeccable compliance with every year’s new “anti-spam standard.”
> To unblock myself, I switched to a personal @gmail.com address for the account. Gmail's own receiving infrastructure is apparently more lenient with messages, or perhaps routes them differently. The verification email came through.
2. He checked workspace email logs (with admin you can do this on gsuite)
3. It showed the intentional non-accept
4. Comprehending the problem, he switched to personal Gmail
5. The email arrived
6. He informed the sender of the original problem which he worked around
7. Sender is tech-illiterate and did not realize what the problem is. This is common with first line customer support so that happens.
The question to ask is whether you are literate in English or you skimmed too fast. Because I did a 30 s read of the article and got that.
I wonder what google workspace support said.
What's truly iffy is that GMail doesn't have the same strict requirements, and there's no way (at least that I found) to turn it off for my Google Workspace domain.
It seems unlikely you're the first company using viva.com and using google workspace.
Clearly the problem here is that viva.com emails aren't arriving on your google workspace, despite what their support process says.
viva.com emails do arrive on other email providers, so seems unlikely to be problem with your viva.com account
It seems unlikely workplace blocks all viva.com emails otherwise more than you would have complained.
Whether that's viva's problem or google's problem is a separate problem.
And I think Viva is going to be pissed that I'm being stopped from pointing out the absolute lie here.
Lovingly yours that_guy_iain.
Dang, honestly, this is going to blow back big time because someone has clearly decided to stop me from editing my comments which means you're liable for damages and in breach of EU laws. YC is big enough and has enough interests in the EU to qualify. And it's the fact you've removed my ability to redress if your lawyers want to deal with it. And I'm pretty sure someone at YC is going to know how much money I'm going to get and who I'm getting it from which is the most impressive thing. And what my tagline is in certain circles.
And nobody "decided to stop you" if you just hit the end of the 2 hour edit window.
But go on, what's your tagline.
It's a if you know you, you know. If you don't you're not in the know. :D
You don't have the right to complain to random websites without punishment. And nobody punished you. And "ability to redress" is something you still have. And there are no damages.
> It's a if you know you, you know.
You brought it up. Though it's pretty obvious you're a liar.