Saturday, November 13, 2010

National Lottery Scraper can send to Gmail addresses again

This is an update to my post last week: Gmail blocks my mail as Spam.

I figured it out, and changed the application accordingly. These are the changes I made:

  • The e-mail sent out now clearly indicates in the body the address of the person it was sent to.
  • The e-mail body states that recipients should e-mail me to unsubscribe.
  • Added "List-Unsubscribe " to the header of the message.
  • Added "Precedence: bulk" header in the e-mail.
It seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through for a simple little app like mine, but I guess the spammers ruin it for all of us, don't they?

You can download the application from here, or view the change log here.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Gmail blocks my mail as Spam

So Gmail as decided to block e-mails sent by National Lottery Scraper as spam (send from me, to me). It's not even as if they just move the mail into my spam folder. No, their server actually blocks it! Here's what my mail log said about it this morning:

9D4FD5EB2C: to=<graham@***********.**.***>, relay=ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM[74.125.79.27]:25, delay=14, delays=0.17/0.22/11/2.4, dsn=5.7.1, status=bounced (host ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM[74.125.79.27] said:
550-5.7.1 [***.***.***.*** 7] Our system has detected that this message is
550-5.7.1 likely unsolicited mail. To reduce the amount of spam sent to Gmail,
550-5.7.1 this message has been blocked. Please visit
550-5.7.1 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=188131 for
550 5.7.1 more information. v45si7647979eeh.40 (in reply to end of DATA command))

The information at the URL they give gives me basically buggerall recourse. Or am I reading this wrong? Does anybody know how to get around this?