I'm currently having issues with gmail limiting my server from passing email through due to it thinking my server is sending a lot of spammy (unsolicited) emails.
I see this showing up in the syslog:
May 2 19:13:19 panel postfix/smtp[27422]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400e:c03::1a]:25: Network is unreachable
May 2 19:13:20 panel postfix/smtp[27422]: 438B5142BE7: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.25.27] said: 421-4.7.0 [104.xxx.xxx.xxx 15] Our system has detected an unusual rate of 421-4.7.0 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our 421-4.7.0 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily 421-4.7.0 rate limited. Please visit 421-4.7.0 http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review our Bulk 421 4.7.0 Email Senders Guidelines. ht8si11619298pdb.99 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command)
So I think this is happening due to spam emails being sent to my email addresses on my server which are forwarded to my gmail account. So gmail thinks my server is sending these spam emails right?
For example, I have a several emails addresses setup like email1@mydomain.com, email2@mydomain.com, and email3@mydomain.com. I have all these email addresses setup to simply forward to my gmail email of myaddress@gmail.com. This is so I have all email delivered to one common email box. So when spam emails get sent to email1@mydomain.com, they are forwarded along to my gmail address and delivered through to gmail. I'm assuming that gmail is now seeing my server IP as spammy, because it sees me passing along these spammy email addresses. I had the same setup before with cpanel, and I don't know if it was a problem, but I don't think it was. Is there a way to inform gmail that this email is simply being forwarded along, so that it doesn't think my server IP address is spammer or something?
Here is what I see when I run mailq
root@panel:~# mailq
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
438B5142BE7 971 Sat May 2 15:06:57 HansBanta@abehide.com
(host alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[64.233.191.26] said: 421-4.7.0 [104.xxx.xxx.xxx 15] Our system has detected an unusual rate of 421-4.7.0 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our 421-4.7.0 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily 421-4.7.0 rate limited. Please visit 421-4.7.0 http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review our Bulk 421 4.7.0 Email Senders Guidelines. a20si605283igr.2 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command))
-- 1 Kbytes in 1 Request.
And here is this email in the system:
root@panel:~# postcat -qv 438B5142BE7
postcat: name_mask: all
postcat: inet_addr_local: configured 2 IPv4 addresses
postcat: inet_addr_local: configured 2 IPv6 addresses
*** ENVELOPE RECORDS deferred/4/438B5142BE7 ***
message_size: 971 735 1 0 971
message_arrival_time: Sat May 2 15:06:57 2015
create_time: Sat May 2 15:06:57 2015
named_attribute: log_ident=438B5142BE7
named_attribute: rewrite_context=remote
sender: HansBanta@abehide.com
named_attribute: log_client_name=142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com
named_attribute: log_client_address=142.0.69.56
named_attribute: log_client_port=44907
named_attribute: log_message_origin=142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com[142.0.69.56]
named_attribute: log_helo_name=abehide.com
named_attribute: log_protocol_name=ESMTP
named_attribute: client_name=142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com
named_attribute: reverse_client_name=142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com
named_attribute: client_address=142.0.69.56
named_attribute: client_port=44907
named_attribute: helo_name=abehide.com
named_attribute: protocol_name=ESMTP
named_attribute: client_address_type=2
warning_message_time: Sat May 2 19:06:57 2015
named_attribute: dsn_orig_rcpt=rfc822;myemail@mydomain.com
original_recipient: myemail@mydomain.com
recipient: myemail@gmail.com
*** MESSAGE CONTENTS deferred/4/438B5142BE7 ***
regular_text: Received: from abehide.com (142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com [142.0.69.56])
regular_text: by panel.mydomain.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438B5142BE7
regular_text: for <myemail@mydomain.com>; Sat, 2 May 2015 15:06:57 +0900 (JST)
regular_text: Message-ID: <399a01d0845b$23f5b520$6cb63faa@HansBanta>
regular_text: From: "Matthew" <HansBanta@abehide.com>
regular_text: To: "Matthew" <myemail@mydomain.com>
regular_text: Subject: What is your most trusted way to improve your sexual performance? Believe me, it can be improved!
regular_text: Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 22:06:57 -0700
regular_text: MIME-Version: 1.0
regular_text: Content-Type: text/plain;
regular_text: charset="us-ascii"
regular_text: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
regular_text: X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
regular_text: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
regular_text: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V10.0.2627
regular_text:
regular_text: These amazing medicines will bring you back to life
regular_text: You won?t be able to keep your boner down with these pills
regular_text: Check out our store and find your favorite!
regular_text:
regular_text: Get FREE tablets right now!
regular_text:
regular_text: http://zzb.bz/xF8qz
regular_text:
regular_text: Only World licensed remedies
regular_text:
regular_text:
*** HEADER EXTRACTED deferred/4/438B5142BE7 ***
*** MESSAGE FILE END deferred/4/438B5142BE7 ***
I see this showing up in the syslog:
May 2 19:13:19 panel postfix/smtp[27422]: connect to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[2607:f8b0:400e:c03::1a]:25: Network is unreachable
May 2 19:13:20 panel postfix/smtp[27422]: 438B5142BE7: host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[74.125.25.27] said: 421-4.7.0 [104.xxx.xxx.xxx 15] Our system has detected an unusual rate of 421-4.7.0 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our 421-4.7.0 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily 421-4.7.0 rate limited. Please visit 421-4.7.0 http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review our Bulk 421 4.7.0 Email Senders Guidelines. ht8si11619298pdb.99 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command)
So I think this is happening due to spam emails being sent to my email addresses on my server which are forwarded to my gmail account. So gmail thinks my server is sending these spam emails right?
For example, I have a several emails addresses setup like email1@mydomain.com, email2@mydomain.com, and email3@mydomain.com. I have all these email addresses setup to simply forward to my gmail email of myaddress@gmail.com. This is so I have all email delivered to one common email box. So when spam emails get sent to email1@mydomain.com, they are forwarded along to my gmail address and delivered through to gmail. I'm assuming that gmail is now seeing my server IP as spammy, because it sees me passing along these spammy email addresses. I had the same setup before with cpanel, and I don't know if it was a problem, but I don't think it was. Is there a way to inform gmail that this email is simply being forwarded along, so that it doesn't think my server IP address is spammer or something?
Here is what I see when I run mailq
root@panel:~# mailq
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
438B5142BE7 971 Sat May 2 15:06:57 HansBanta@abehide.com
(host alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[64.233.191.26] said: 421-4.7.0 [104.xxx.xxx.xxx 15] Our system has detected an unusual rate of 421-4.7.0 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our 421-4.7.0 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily 421-4.7.0 rate limited. Please visit 421-4.7.0 http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review our Bulk 421 4.7.0 Email Senders Guidelines. a20si605283igr.2 - gsmtp (in reply to end of DATA command))
-- 1 Kbytes in 1 Request.
And here is this email in the system:
root@panel:~# postcat -qv 438B5142BE7
postcat: name_mask: all
postcat: inet_addr_local: configured 2 IPv4 addresses
postcat: inet_addr_local: configured 2 IPv6 addresses
*** ENVELOPE RECORDS deferred/4/438B5142BE7 ***
message_size: 971 735 1 0 971
message_arrival_time: Sat May 2 15:06:57 2015
create_time: Sat May 2 15:06:57 2015
named_attribute: log_ident=438B5142BE7
named_attribute: rewrite_context=remote
sender: HansBanta@abehide.com
named_attribute: log_client_name=142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com
named_attribute: log_client_address=142.0.69.56
named_attribute: log_client_port=44907
named_attribute: log_message_origin=142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com[142.0.69.56]
named_attribute: log_helo_name=abehide.com
named_attribute: log_protocol_name=ESMTP
named_attribute: client_name=142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com
named_attribute: reverse_client_name=142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com
named_attribute: client_address=142.0.69.56
named_attribute: client_port=44907
named_attribute: helo_name=abehide.com
named_attribute: protocol_name=ESMTP
named_attribute: client_address_type=2
warning_message_time: Sat May 2 19:06:57 2015
named_attribute: dsn_orig_rcpt=rfc822;myemail@mydomain.com
original_recipient: myemail@mydomain.com
recipient: myemail@gmail.com
*** MESSAGE CONTENTS deferred/4/438B5142BE7 ***
regular_text: Received: from abehide.com (142-0-69-56.static.avestadns.com [142.0.69.56])
regular_text: by panel.mydomain.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 438B5142BE7
regular_text: for <myemail@mydomain.com>; Sat, 2 May 2015 15:06:57 +0900 (JST)
regular_text: Message-ID: <399a01d0845b$23f5b520$6cb63faa@HansBanta>
regular_text: From: "Matthew" <HansBanta@abehide.com>
regular_text: To: "Matthew" <myemail@mydomain.com>
regular_text: Subject: What is your most trusted way to improve your sexual performance? Believe me, it can be improved!
regular_text: Date: Fri, 01 May 2015 22:06:57 -0700
regular_text: MIME-Version: 1.0
regular_text: Content-Type: text/plain;
regular_text: charset="us-ascii"
regular_text: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
regular_text: X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
regular_text: X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627
regular_text: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V10.0.2627
regular_text:
regular_text: These amazing medicines will bring you back to life
regular_text: You won?t be able to keep your boner down with these pills
regular_text: Check out our store and find your favorite!
regular_text:
regular_text: Get FREE tablets right now!
regular_text:
regular_text: http://zzb.bz/xF8qz
regular_text:
regular_text: Only World licensed remedies
regular_text:
regular_text:
*** HEADER EXTRACTED deferred/4/438B5142BE7 ***
*** MESSAGE FILE END deferred/4/438B5142BE7 ***
