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I was honestly questioning this as I heard it on the news this morning with gmail. Definitely makes sense.Just a quick google search revealed that gmail is having a massive outage/issue likely causing this. Basically the site has automated bounce handling meaning when your email says "no this isn't valid" we stop sending. It generally prevents us from being blacklisted which is why the above surprised me. In the bounce I noticed A HUGE amount of gmail addresses in the bounce which very unlikely since gmail is highly reputable.
But looks like this today may have caused it - still investigating on my end:
Gmail is broken right now, one day after a massive outage (Update: Fixed?) | TechCrunch
While it doesn't appear to be completely down like it was yesterday morning, we're hearing many reports from Gmail users that the email service is havingtechcrunch.com