It's not you, Philip, it's Gmail. Apparently SORBS has tagged them for allowing spam to spew forth from their servers.
I run against SORBS's blocklist, and my server logs are full of entries like those below. This has happened before, and I'm amazed that Google hasn't knee-jerk reacted faster to clean up the collateral damage. In fact, this has been going on for 4 days now; usually these things are fixed within 12 hours.
Unfortunately, I can't turn off
SORBS because I'd be inundated with spam. One suggestion:
since only certain Google outgoing servers are tagged while
others are working, keep trying to send until you chance on a
server that isn't tagged. Frustrating brute-force attack, I
know, but it often works. Cheers,
Gib
08:22:46.306 1 SMTPI-002560(mail-oi1-f182.google.com) Recipient Hel...@gibhenry.com rejected: your host [209.85.167.182] is blacklisted by dnsbl.sorbs.net. Currently Sending Spam See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?209.85.167.182. Send your questions to blackli...@gibhenry.com 08:22:50.492 1 SMTPI-002560(mail-oi1-f182.google.com) Too many protocol errors, aborting. [209.85.167.182] is blacklisted for 3600 seconds 08:27:05.251 1 SMTPI-002562(mail-yb1-f172.google.com) Recipient Hel...@gibhenry.com rejected: your host [209.85.219.172] is blacklisted by dnsbl.sorbs.net. Currently Sending Spam See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?209.85.219.172. Send your questions to blackli...@gibhenry.com 08:27:09.589 1 SMTPI-002562(mail-yb1-f172.google.com) Too many protocol errors, aborting. [209.85.219.172] is blacklisted for 3600 seconds 09:04:54.728 1 SMTPI-002563(mail-lj1-f175.google.com) Recipient Hel...@gibhenry.com rejected: your host [209.85.208.175] is blacklisted by dnsbl.sorbs.net. Currently Sending Spam See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?209.85.208.175. Send your questions to blackli...@gibhenry.com 09:04:58.904 1 SMTPI-002563(mail-lj1-f175.google.com) Too many protocol errors, aborting. [209.85.208.175] is blacklisted for 3600 seconds 09:12:16.397 1 SMTPI-002564(mail-lj1-f179.google.com) Recipient Hel...@gibhenry.com rejected: your host [209.85.208.179] is blacklisted by dnsbl.sorbs.net. Currently Sending Spam See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?209.85.208.179. Send your questions to blackli...@gibhenry.com 09:12:20.574 1 SMTPI-002564(mail-lj1-f179.google.com) Too many protocol errors, aborting. [209.85.208.179] is blacklisted for 3600 seconds 09:26:14.999 1 SMTPI-002567(a11-9.smtp-out.amazonses.com) Recipient g...@gibhenry.com rejected: your host [54.240.11.9] is blacklisted by dnsbl.sorbs.net. Currently Sending Spam See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?54.240.11.9. Send your questions to blackli...@gibhenry.com 09:36:03.468 1 SMTPI-002568(mail-lf1-f45.google.com) Recipient Hel...@gibhenry.com rejected: your host [209.85.167.45] is blacklisted by dnsbl.sorbs.net. Currently Sending Spam See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml?209.85.167.45. Send your questions to blackli...@gibhenry.com 09:36:07.632 1 SMTPI-002568(mail-lf1-f45.google.com) Too many protocol errors, aborting. [209.85.167.45] is blacklisted for 3600 seconds
Hold on there, Tim. I choose to run against four "realtime blacklists" (RBLs) which list IP addresses which have originated spam in the last 24 hours, and you will almost certainly get a bounce notice if your email bounces because your ISP (Google, in this case) originates spam. The alternative for me is to be over-run with spam; I get enough even with the blacklists.
This has nothing to do with
China, Hong Kong, corporate stuff, Democrats, democrats,
Republicans, republicans, or QAnon. And in my case, there's
no money changing hands whatsoever, except my payments to my
ISP. The RBLs are free, as is this list. Cheers,
Gib
Elton, as far as I know,
there's no reason you shouldn't see your own posts just like
anyone else (except when they bounce because of spam, as is
happening at the moment). Cheers,
Gib
FWIW: I can see list posts from others, yet I never see my posts; it's been that way for years using gmail -- IIRC, Gib advise that gmail was blocking such.
Best; Elton
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On Mar 24, 2021, at 4:07 PM, Gib Henry <Hel...@gibhenry.com> wrote:
It's not you, Philip, it's Gmail. Apparently SORBS has tagged them for allowing spam to spew forth from their servers.
I run against SORBS's blocklist, and my server logs are full of entries like those below. This has happened before, and I'm amazed that Google hasn't knee-jerk reacted faster to clean up the collateral damage. In fact, this has been going on for 4 days now; usually these things are fixed within 12 hours.
Unfortunately, I can't turn off SORBS because I'd be inundated with spam. One suggestion: since only certain Google outgoing servers are tagged while others are working, keep trying to send until you chance on a server that isn't tagged. Frustrating brute-force attack, I know, but it often works. Cheers,
Gib