Of all the confusing and convoluted mail server rejections commonly in use, “Currently not permitted to relay through this server” causes more Support tickets for us than any other. Worse yet, it’s not even an error that we use, so we find ourselves constantly trying to coherently explain what someone else’s mail server is saying.
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Currently not permitted to relay through this server – Worst Rejection Ever!
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Google Docs Hosts Viagra Spam
Thursday, June 10th, 2010We’ve certainly seen a lot of spam come out of the Google mail servers in the past, and now we’re seeing even more spam content hosted by the popular Goggle Docs applications as well.
Emails typically have simple subject lines, with intentional misspellings used as an attempt to evade spam filtering.
Examples include:
- Subject: We ship direc7 to you
- Subject: From Canada4t5 you
- Subject: all medic6tions ar3 on S3le
- Subject: ricrac7 sue
- Subject: See 2uge dis64unts now
Zoomshare Hosts Spam Where Geocities Left Off
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010Now that Geocities closed it’s doors, (more missed by spammers than actual users no doubt) Zoomshare has stepped up to welcome the spamming clientele.
From their homepage:
Welcome Former GeoCities Customers!
Zoomshare: Providing Free Sites Since 2004
While there’s no doubt legitimate users, Zoomeshare doesn’t appear to have any better spam/abuse management than did Geocities.
