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Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

mouseblack
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Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

Hello All,

 

For some months now I have successfully been able to send emails from Gmail via relay.force9.net.

 

This evening sent emails are being bounced back with the error message...

 

The response from the remote server was:

554 avasout03 smtp ESMTP server not available (blacklisted by local policy)

 

Any ideas?

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Gandalf
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Re: Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

Hi there,

I remember this used to be an issue some time ago and when we were about to investigate the problem, it seemed to fix itself. Sad

I’ve done some digging and found the previous thread Here.

Could you PM me the email address you’re trying to send to, the date & the time of the email?

I’ll then raise this to our NetOps team to investigate for you. 

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Anoush Mortazavi
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Re: Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

@Gandalf and @JW

I guess in the configuration described all submission messages will appear to be from a limited number of Gmail IP addresses.

Might this be as simple as Gmail’s IP addresses have been (correctly?) blackballed for being a known source of spam?

Might their IP addresses be overseas and therefore subject to PN’s submission rate limiting?

Personally I do not see the benefits of this way of working given the complications it causes and the exposure risk to PN of spam injection.

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JW
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Re: Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

The error message and reporting server would suggest that one or more of Google's servers have been picked up as attempting to pass spam through our outbound platform.

Inbound from Google wouldn't be impacted, as that's expected and comes in via different methodologies and via the inbound platform, rather than relay.plus.net.

 Jon W
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Re: Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

@JW 

Thank you, I think that you are confirming my theory - Gmail acting as a submission agent is being profiled as a source of spam, thereby impacting general use of the mechanism.

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Gandalf
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Re: Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

As a heads up I've raised a task to our NetOps support team to investigate this further.

Will be happy to update this thread when I know more.

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Gandalf
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Re: Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

I’ve received a response back today and I’ve been advised that unfortunately it doesn’t look like this is something we’d be able to fix. 

Once the spam issue from Google’s servers goes away, the problem should fix itself. 

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mouseblack
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Re: Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

Thanks for your help Anoush.

 

The issue does seem to have resolved itself

Gandalf
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Re: Gmail Send As Feature Not Working

I’m happy to see this is sorted now @mouseblack 

Let us know if there’s anything else you’d need help with.

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