n Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:45 PM, Face <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I had someone send spam using my SMTP, therefore i had to change my > configure to stop this. Now I cannot send to gmail.com and i keep > getting this > > [email protected] > SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: > host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com [74.125.91.27]: > 550-5.7.1 [173.214.173.77 1] Our system has detected an > unusual rate of > 550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our > 550-5.7.1 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been blocked.
It very clearly states: "You did something bad in the past, so we blocked you." Well, they are still blocking you because you haven't done anything to them that indicates you fixed it. > 550-5.7.1 Please visit > http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review > 550 5.7.1 our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines. s9si64275qcy.51 Did you go to that URL and read all of it? One part that is unstated is whether you are permanently blocked or whether it's just your reputation that suffered. If you are permanently blocked, you need to submit a block removal request, you'll have to find where in the maze of Gmail support it is. If you are being blocked on your reputation, over time, probably about a week, they'll start accepting email from your server again. However, if any of those spams that made it through your machine start flowing again, you'll very quickly sour your reputation again and you'll get blocked. Basically, your choice to me appears to be to make sure that nobody can relay spam through your system and wait for your reputation with google to go from bad to good (which can only happen by NOT sending spam and NOT sending a lot of email at once). ...Todd -- If Americans could eliminate sugary beverages, potatoes, white bread, pasta, white rice and sugary snacks, we would wipe out almost all the problems we have with weight and diabetes and other metabolic diseases. -- Dr. Walter Willett, Harvard School of Public Health -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
