I have just checked it again with my own personal accounts and it worked this time. Perhaps thaey have realised they were not going to get away with it.
I will do another test with a friend where the emails are different.
p.s. there was also a recent change where gmail was refusing anything without an SPF record. I had to go through and update a lot of domains/mail account settings manually so they would work again.
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Further follow up; a friend using gmail with whom I previously found it impossible to communicate with using tuta has just replied to my email - so that is working now!
This is good news, I can continue the mission!