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Philippe Creytens
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September 27, 2025
The scariest part of email? You might be blacklisted and never know it. This morning, a client asked me a simple question: “𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘰𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘤𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵?” At first glance, it sounds unlikely. After all, we’re talking about Google. But the truth is more uncomfortable. 𝗬𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗻. Not because you’re sending spam, but because your emails share the same infrastructure as millions of others. If a block of IP addresses is abused, the entire range can temporarily be listed. And here’s the frustrating twist: every receiving server has its own rules. They decide who gets through. And they don’t have to notify you if they start rejecting your emails. Imagine sending proposals, invoices, or follow-ups... Confident they’re being read… Only to discover they never arrived. That’s not just inconvenient. That’s business-critical. I didn’t like the idea of being blind to this risk. So I built a small Google Apps Script. It checks one or more of my domains against public blacklists on a regular schedule. And if something’s wrong, it sends me an alert. Now I know when there’s a problem before it costs me a deal, a client, or a reputation. Would you find value in a lightweight script that monitors this for you?
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Robbie Creytens
CEO of my own life / Co-Founder of Envision
14 days ago
I always thought Google Workspace domains were ‘immune’ to blacklists. How often do you see issues like this come up in practice?
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