# Activation email not received, sometimes, for some people, because DMARC was broken

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/activation-email-not-received-sometimes-for-some-people-because-dmarc-was-broken/233989>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 26, 2022, 11:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activation-email-not-received-sometimes-for-some-people-because-dmarc-was-broken/233989 "2022-07-26T11:09:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![ClawdiaWolf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/clawdiawolf/32/262518_2.png) [@ClawdiaWolf](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ClawdiaWolf)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 7:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/activation-email-not-received-sometimes-for-some-people-because-dmarc-was-broken/233989/6 "2022-07-26T19:56:12Z")

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It’s a Gmail thing. For some reason it will randomly delay messages for no apparent reason. I’ve seen this _a lot_ over the years even when sending emails to myself via the web interface.

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