My domain also sends no more than 10 messages a day. The domain is correctly-configured with SPF, DKIM and DMARC.
At the beginning of March, I started getting temporary rejections from gmail. Not all of my outgoing messages, maybe 1 in 10. Most of these messages were to one individual, to whom I've been sending for years. My domain has existed continously since 2002, and has never sent spam. The rejection message was startling: words to the effect of "Your message has been rejected because of the awful reputation of the sending domain". The reputation of my domain is spotless, according to various testing tools.
There have been no new rejections in the last two weeks.
According to TFA, Google started rejecting a proportion of mail from bulk senders in February. I wonder if I got caught up in some half-baked roll-out of this new (old) policy.
Same here with 20+ years old mail service on the same domain that has never sent spam with correctly configured DNS SPF DKIM DMARC, getting gmail rejections. I noticed a significant improvement after linking the domain to my google account https://support.google.com/mail/answer/9981691
No, I did not. I barely ever use Google services of any kind.
My "domain reputation" should mean something like "the consensus of multiple reputation services", where those reputation services are reasonably open about how they score. It shouldn't mean "the completely opaque opinion of a single, hyper-dominant, secretive provider with all kinds of conflicts of interest".
At the beginning of March, I started getting temporary rejections from gmail. Not all of my outgoing messages, maybe 1 in 10. Most of these messages were to one individual, to whom I've been sending for years. My domain has existed continously since 2002, and has never sent spam. The rejection message was startling: words to the effect of "Your message has been rejected because of the awful reputation of the sending domain". The reputation of my domain is spotless, according to various testing tools.
There have been no new rejections in the last two weeks.
According to TFA, Google started rejecting a proportion of mail from bulk senders in February. I wonder if I got caught up in some half-baked roll-out of this new (old) policy.