Google can still affect you by not delivering your emails. I've had my own domain for personal, noncommercial use for 15+ years the past few with Rackspace as the email host. I accessed my email account with Thunderbird, webmail, BlueMail on the phone. As of a few days ago I cannot send email to friends with Gmail or businesses that subscribe to Gsuite. My messages are rejected at their servers. I think the domain name itself is triggering the block since Rackspace says their servers and IP addresses are clean.
I found out about SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and set them up, followed all the other instructions on assorted Google sites, and still no go. Apparently the blocks can take weeks to clear or may even be permanent. The reject emails say to contact postmaster@google.com which, of course, is pointless since I can't email the domain. I don't even think there's anything behind it if I could. There's no way to contact any person or group regarding the block which I think must have happened due to spoofing.
From what I can see, domains these days are assumed to be commercial for mass mailings and having one's own for incidental use is an outlier.
I found out about SPF, DKIM, and DMARC and set them up, followed all the other instructions on assorted Google sites, and still no go. Apparently the blocks can take weeks to clear or may even be permanent. The reject emails say to contact postmaster@google.com which, of course, is pointless since I can't email the domain. I don't even think there's anything behind it if I could. There's no way to contact any person or group regarding the block which I think must have happened due to spoofing.
From what I can see, domains these days are assumed to be commercial for mass mailings and having one's own for incidental use is an outlier.