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.