Looks like my hunch was correct. When I telnetting into GMAIL's server this time, I got 421-4.7.0 Our system has detected an unusual amount of unsolicited 421-4.7.0 mail originating from your IP address. To protect our 421-4.7.0 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been 421-4.7.0 temporarily blocked. Please visit 421-4.7.0 http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review 421 4.7.0 our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines. 15si118050wrl This is really odd this is the first time I recevied a new message that means something. Even now, if I were to telnet I don't get this message but rather the 421 4.7.0 Try again later, closing connection. 27si7409145wrl Connection to host lost. I must've hit them at some particular time. We are not sending any SPAM, I think it's us sending them a bunch of NDRs and they're system is thinking we're sending them bulk email. I did notice in my SMTP logs that some domains that think NDR messages (messages with <> in the from field) thinks its SPAM and will close the session. Hopefully once we get this LDAP filtering in place we can circumvent this. ________________________________ From: Chong, James Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:57 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Cannot send to Gmail (revisited) http://www.MSExchange.org/ Thanks for the input. It's a pain in the A** to get anything changed in here and will not get approved. They would want to find the solution rather than a band aid. We are in the process of replacing our all our gateway mx servers with updated SPAM solutions since ours is older than dirt, so I'm hoping this issue will go away when this happens. Another thing I noticed is that these two boxes take different routes out to gmail when I tracert, I'm wondering if this has something to do with it as well since logs also indicate transient network failure when talking to gmail. ________________________________ From: Tiago de Aviz [mailto:Tiago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 2:08 PM To: [ExchangeList] Subject: [exchangelist] Re: Cannot send to Gmail (revisited) http://www.MSExchange.org/ Know what? I'd create a connector, putting the gmail smtp domain as the address space, and make Exchange deliver the message to the Gmail MX that is accepting connections from your server. And for that MX that sends out a lot of NDR's, make it deliver messages for gmail thru your other MX, that should take care of it. Create a connector on the failing MX pointing to your other MX as the smart host that'll make the delivery for all gmail.com address space. Tiago de Aviz SoftSell - Curitiba (41) 3340-2363 www.softsell.com.br Esta mensagem, incluindo seus anexos, tem caráter confidencial e seu conteúdo é restrito ao destinatário da mensagem. Caso você tenha recebido esta mensagem por engano, queira por favor retorná-la ao destinatário e apagá-la de seus arquivos. Qualquer uso não autorizado, replicação ou disseminação desta mensagem ou parte dela é expressamente proibido. A SoftSell não é responsável pelo conteúdo ou a veracidade desta informação. >>> ChongJa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 6/3/2006 15:40 >>> http://www.MSExchange.org/ I'm still experiencing intermittent connectivity issues with one of my outbound mx servers to gmail. Mails to gmail get delayed. When telneting to gmails mx server I get 421: 4.7.0 Try again later, closing connection. f15si3983265qba". This only happens to gmail, I do not have any issues with mail flow to other domains when this happens, only to gmail and it only happens on one of my mx servers. When this happens I can connect to gmails mx servers fine from my other mx server. I have contacted gmail to look into this, which they said they are looking into but have not received an answer. This is what I think is occuring. The mx server we are having an issue with, is a dedicated outbound mail server and sends out a larger volume of mail compared to our other outbound mx server. This server sends out a ton of NDRs. (We don't do ldap filtering yet) I think we may be sending a large volume of ndrs to gmail and they are blocking this particular server. Keep in mind that the connection is intermitent and mail flow from this server will resume sometimes hourly plus or minus. I think gmail has some security parameter in place that thinks we're sending them spam or doing some sort of DHA attack. Does anybody have any insight on this or some sort of policy that gmail may have? Here's a thread, looks like couple other people have experienced this but no answers posted. Thanks. http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-POP-and-Forwarding/browse_thread/thread/128ce204a9ac4d5d/ce1e8617aa303897?lnk=st&q=421+4.7.0+gmail&rnum=4&hl=en#ce1e8617aa303897 <http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-POP-and-Forwarding/browse_thread/thread/128ce204a9ac4d5d/ce1e8617aa303897?lnk=st&q=421+4.7.0+gmail&rnum=4&hl=en#ce1e8617aa303897> James Chong ETS Sr. Exchange Engineer Office: 703.206.7548 Cell: 703.863.1483 chongja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: tiago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: chongja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------ List Archives: http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Exchange Newsletters: http://www.msexchange.org/pages/newsletter.asp ------------------------------------------------------ Visit TechGenix.com for more information about our other sites: http://www.techgenix.com ------------------------------------------------------ You are currently subscribed to this MSExchange.org Discussion List as: chongja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe visit http://www.webelists.com/cgi/lyris.pl?enter=exchangelist Report abuse to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx