I messed up something on my code and made my server send 10k+ emails to my own email address last night.
After receiving ~8k this morning, I barely haven't received any mail in the last 8 hours besides sometimes one of the automated ones at a rate of ~10/hour.
Has anyone already experienced this?
I haven't found how to tell gmail about this. Nowhere I have a message saying "your mailbox is slowed down because of abusing use" or something.
Can anyone help or should I wait and go on vacation for a few days?
Edit:
Thanks for the help. To add more details:
Those emails have been sent from a non-gmail SMTP server, say example.com to me#example.com, which I automatically redirect to myaddress#gmail.com.
I thought at first that the problem was coming from the example.com mail server, but it happens this parts works very well for sending and receiving for any other email#example.com.
My emails sent from myaddress#gmail.com are also sent. It is only to receive a mail in myaddress#gmail.com inbox that it won't work.
This makes me guess that this is not a SPAM-filtering issue, since sending works fine.
Edit2:
#bearacuda13, there ain't much code to show. The sequence of failures are:
A delayed_job that calls itself recursively every hour, silently increasing the number of jobs in the database, without any error
A heroku API sunset that starts to make them fail all at once.
An exception mailer to tell me about the exception raised
Done :)
Try https://mxtoolbox.com/blacklists.aspx to see if you've been added to a blacklist. If you have, it's a serious pain to get off of those lists.
When you send mail, it gets routed through several areas on the internet before winding up in your gmail. Any of those routes has the possibility to flag and blacklist emails from someone they think is a spammer. If you're sending 10k emails in an hour, you've probably triggered the "spammer" criteria.
To get off the lists, you need to contact the organization that has blacklisted you. It might be easier to get a new static IP or domain name.
So the solution has been to wait. In 24 hours I still had not received them all, but at got some message:
which made me feel like messages were on their way.
48 hours later, I now have the feeling I caught up with all my emails.
If this occurs to you, be patient!
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Using SendGrid through Azure (free version).
I recently disabled a user's email because it was receiving way too much SPAM. Prior to doing this my activities list was about 1-2 pages long with recognizable e-mails my system was sending out per customer input in a website (there is a workflow for forms which the user inputs, then my system sends out an e-mail confirming input).
Now that I have disabled that e-mail, I am seeing upwards of 59 pages of activity just for one day (since I disabled the e-mail address), most of which is listed as "Deferred" or "Processed". The lists include SPAM e-mail addresses (something-reverse-mortgage#whatever.net, etc.).
Reading the SendGrid documentation, it seems that "Deferred" activities just mean that the receiving ISP is asking SendGrid to slow down. I take this to mean that my server is sending these e-mails.
This is worrisome obviously. Disabling that e-mail has this unintended consequence of seeing hundreds of "Defered" activity listings in SendGrid.
I am confused, however, if this is just the system getting these e-mails and then trying to bounce them back through my server. Since it's SPAM and likely not a real e-mail address, is SendGrid just trying to return the e-mails? Hence the activity?
If so, is this something that will eventually die down, or should I do something to prevent SendGrid from returning these obviously bogus SPAM e-mails to what it thinks is the originating sender?
Thanks in advance.
I send about 100K emails a month with sendgrid and I don't worry at all about deferred. About 1/3 of my outgoing emails are gmail and gmail is very agressive at blocking emails when you send more than 50 or so at once. They simply reject and sendgrid tries again later. They all seem to go thru within about 24 hours.
I have a site on a dedicated server with it's own IP range that has been running for a good few years. We have a notification email address (mailout#domain.com) which we use to send automated emails (activation emails when a user signs up and notification emails if something relevant to them happens, eg someone befriends them or comments on their picture etc). Users can select whether to receive these notifications or not. We have SPF and RDNS setup.
Email from all our other email accounts go to hotmail/gmail/yahoo mail etc correctly into the inbox. However any mail sent from the mailout#domain.com account (whether automatically by the server or manually via outlook) is delivered correctly to the inboxes for yahoo and gmail however goes into Junk in Hotmail (but other #domain.com addresses deliver to hotmail's inbox correctly). It says at the top of the message that MS Smartscreen marked this message as junk. I signed up for MS Smart Network Data Services to monitor the IP and it says it's not blocked but it displays Bot-like behaviour (which kind of makes sense as our notifications are kind of bot like even though they're not spam).
I can't work out what to do to prevent this from happening, we've authenticated the email, there's obviously not a general block on the IP as emails from different accounts on the same domain are going through successfully. It doesn't seem to be the format of the email either because if I send identical emails from mailout#domain.com and contact#domain then the one from contact# gets through to the inbox but the one from mailout# goes through to junk.
I can't really work out what to do and obviously trying to get MS to sort it out is never going to happen and i've used all their available tools. I can obviously try setting up a new email address (eg noreply#domain.com) and using that for notifications but i assume it will only be a matter of time before that gets blocked as well.
I would be immensely grateful for any suggestions anyone has!
Thanks so much,
Dave
You don't have many options. Try to do as many of the following as you can:
Reach out to MS support (don't discard this notion)
Implement DKIM and possibly DMARC (which are vastly more informative than SPF)
Change your IP address to something cleaner
Find and follow bulk sender best practices, e.g. M³AAWG's BCPs, perhaps the Help – I'm on a Blocklist doc
We use Lotusnotes 6.5 as email client. We wil have around 1600+ mails for 9 hrs. If a mail not checked , we have face serious issues with our client. Can any script can be written to check whether all mails are checked and replied?
Update:
We have already tried moving the mails to another folder.But has this mailbox handled by team of persons, we noticed lot of human error happening like moving a unread mail, sometimes they would have read mail but forget to reply it etc.etc.
So I was looking out for a script solution, will your other options. Also one more thing we do is we cc our mailbox mail id for all outgoing emails to have a track of all replied mails, will this could help in any way to find out which mails was missed?
If you need to track unread marks, I second the aforementioned nsftools solution, which works in Domino 7.x too. However, this is very much Notes ID-dependent. A folder would be better.
Note that 6.5x is well out of support, and that Domino 7.x officially died this week: use something at least vaguely modern!
There's an easier non-programmatic way. Just move the email from the inbox into another folder once the email has been responded to. That is more reliable than any programmatic solution, and keeps your inbox tidy (which will certainly be necessary if you get nearly 200 emails per hour!)
That said, here are some other ideas.
Determining if the document was read
Unread marks are not your friend here, unless you'll be accessing the mail file from the same client. Also they tend to get out of sync and would likely prove unreliable at some point, especially given the number of incoming emails. Instead you'll need to have some information that is saved within the individual mail document, such as the last accessed property or a custom item you manage via scripts/formulas.
You can see if an email has been read by checking the Last Accessed property of the mail document. According to IBM's technote (https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21086670), the property will be updated when the document is read.
You could write a script in the QueryOpen event that stamps a value on the document and saves it.
Determining if the email was responded to
First off, I'd suggest you save all sent emails in case you need a record of what was sent to the client. That won't give you a way to see which emails have not been responded to, however.
Instead you could add script to the reply action within the memo form. When someone click's reply it could update the current memo, stamping an item on it to say who replied and at what time, for instance. Then you can create a view to show any emails that don't have that item, and another view to show emails that do grouped by who responded. The second view could even show how many emails each person responded to, something that might be used as a measurement of performance perhaps.
"Unread mark" checking is not exposed in the API.
I did find 2 links, this one is a basic implementation, where as this link does have more robust code and is implemented as an object in LotusScript. It should be compatible with Notes 6.5+.
I found the second link through nsftools website which has lots of great snippets that solve various problems. You should at least be able to detect if a mail has been read or not. Note that it requires making API level calls. You should be able to create a new script library and copy/paste the code into it.
I've had this idea for a year or so and I find it hard to believe that I am the only one to have ever of thought of this. This feature is not available in any web-based or email client that I know of. I would love to see this for Gmail. I posted a topic on the Gmail help forums but never received any meaningful replies.
A lot of people forward on emails to groups of other people, usually of the fun or joke variety. I don't want to be that guy that forwards on the email to my "fun" group of addresses only to send it right back to the person that just sent it to me or to someone that may have already received it previously in the thread of messages. I find myself hitting the "forward" button, adding a group to the recipients list, then having to go through the list and remove people that received the email just like me.
So, why not have a "Forward without Duplicates" button that parses through the message body and remove any address found from the recipients list. This way, anyone that has already been included in the email thread does not receive the message again. I don't forward on emails anymore b/c of the annoyance of having to add a group of addresses and then slowly and painfully go through and remove each one that does not need to be on it.
I have tried using firebug to isolate what needs to be parsed through, but it is tough. Does anyone have any direction they could point me in? The Better Gmail extension for Firefox includes some scripts that have been written, but I have no idea where to even start to be honest. Is there a way to look through these scripts to use as learning examples?
I tried to subscribe to the m2eclipse mailing list by sending an email to user-subscribe#m2eclipse.codehaus.org but it never sent me back any confirmation email. I sent an email to info#sonatype.com asking if the mailing list was still running a couple of weeks ago and haven't received any response back to that either.
Then I found another way to subscribe via http://xircles.codehaus.org/lists/info/search. So I did and am now receiving emails sent to the list. However, I can't send the list emails. They get bounced back with a failure notice:
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mail.codehaus.org.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<user#m2eclipse.codehaus.org>:
Sorry, only subscribers may post. If you are a subscriber, please forward this
message to user-owner#m2eclipse.codehaus.org to get your new address included. (#5.7.2)
I've forwarded this message as instructed twice now (once yesterday and once this morning) without result so far.
Does anyone know if this mailing list is being managed? It sucks to be only able to read messages and not to send them.
Thanks in advance!
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