If it’s not one thing it’s another at Dreamhost.

Like a lot of people I just forward all my email to Gmail, it’s got a great spam filter, plenty of storage, accessible via web, POP & IMAP, maybe the only downside is they can just de-activate your account without warning 🙂

Recently my email seemed to stop working, on investigation it seemed that Dreamhost were still accepting the email however it wasn’t arriving at my Gmail account.

So I logged a ticket and got a reply 12 hours later saying they were aware of a slowness issue with email forwarding to Gmail and I would be updated when it was fixed.

Quoting: “Right now we are experiencing some slowdowns sending emails to Google’s GMail service.”

Days later still no news from my ticket, however earlier this week I got a test message that I had sent… last week.

Received: from staffnet.xxx.com.au (staffnet.xxx.com.au [203.x.x.x])
by spunkymail-mx5.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix)
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 20:07:59 -0800 (PST)

Received: from brazilian.dreamhost.com ([66.33.209.64])
by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k19si1079983rvb.2007.12.05.13.29.07;
Wed, 05 Dec 2007 13:29:07 -0800 (PST)

6 days 😐

Thankfully I was in the process of moving the last of my hosting away from them.