> Viva.com, one of Europe's largest payment processors, sends verification emails without a Message-ID header — a basic requirement of RFC 5322 since 2008. Google Workspace rejects them outright. Their support team's response to my detailed bug report: "your account has a verified email, so there's no problem."

Their emails do arrive tho? It was your email that didn't arrive? I find it unbelievable that a payment provider ignored customer complaining about no emails being delivered since it would breach their SLAs with their customers and their customers' customers would have complained. Especially since at the top you say Google says you got the verified email.

Dude, you may be liable for damages on this. This is an extremely serious allegation to be making in my opinion. I would delete this asap.

Edit: I think Ycombinator needs to realise they're liable for spreading this too. Holy crap, it's bad. They're lying through their teeth saying an email bounced but ended up in their logs. That's not now emails bounce is it? They bounce because it wasn't found. How was he able to verify his email if he didn't get the code?

Interesting, your take away is that Google is the one with the bug here?

If you read two paragraphs further than the Tl;Dr:

> 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.

1. Email didn’t arrive in his inbox of his Google workspace

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.

It does seem unlikely that there are no customers on google workspace who have tried to use viva. I don't do payment processing, and my email is via zoho, so I've no idea how large either of those groups are.

I wonder what google workspace support said.

So, I've got to use my old account. I just found out via sources that he verified this account with the code from his main email. It was in his spam which is how he was able to see that the email headers weren't what he wanted. Which is why there was a log for a "bounced" email. I can't believe people don't realise bouncing means the mail server couldn't find an inbox.

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.