Allegedly, on or about 30 April 2017, JD sent: > Gmail message below > ==================================================== > Message not delivered > There was a problem delivering your message to dpco@xxxxxxxxxx. See > the technical details below, or try resending in a few minutes. > The response was: 554 Communication dropped Harvest attack from this ip > Reporting-MTA: dns; googlemail.com > Received-From-MTA: dns; jd1008@xxxxxxxxx > Arrival-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 11:33:12 -0700 (PDT) > X-Original-Message-ID: <59062DE7.4090903@xxxxxxxxx> > Final-Recipient: rfc822; dpco@xxxxxxxxxx > Action: failed Status: 5.0.0 > Remote-MTA: dns; mx1.bol.net.in. (203.94.248.193, the server for the domain bol.net.in.) > Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 554 Communication dropped Harvest attack from this ip > Last-Attempt-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 11:33:14 -0700 (PDT) I would say that it's the *recipient's* mail server that's complaining about a "directory harvest attack" (that a server is flooding them with messages written to all sorts of random addresses trying to find ones that work). It's confusing as to whether the complaint about it coming "from this ip" refers to *your* IP (which is possible if your IP is spamming them, if your IP is shared, or if they really mean from a range of IPs that yours belongs to, but giving a vague error message), or whether it refers to the IP of the SMTP server that you're sending through. I'm guessing that you're sending through googlemail, the recipient is telling googlemail that it thinks googlemail is spamming it (which it could well be), and that googlemail is telling you it can't proceed to send the message. The error message said try again, so do that. And if you have another mail service to use, try using it, instead. It used to be things like Hotmail and Yahoo were the services to try and send spam through, I suppose it's Google's turn to be exploited. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. You can't have equality AND special treatment. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
