{"id":5601,"date":"2014-03-27T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T14:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2014-03-27T23:22:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T22:22:06","slug":"google-groups-com-hates-greylisting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/google-groups-com-hates-greylisting\/","title":{"rendered":"groups.google.com hates greylisting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Google,<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a Wikipedia article for you: <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greylisting\">Greylisting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After you&#8217;ve read that, then consider the error message I always get for my <a href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/\">groups.google.com<\/a> account when you disable mail sending to me due to &#8220;bouncing&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Bounce status<\/strong> Your email address is currently flagged as <strong>bouncing<\/strong>. For additional information or to correct this, view your email status here [link].<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Following that link I get to read the reason:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#8220;Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain haxx.se by [mailserver]. The error that the other server returned was: 451 4.7.1 <strong>Greylisting in action, please come back later&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>See, even the error message spells out what it is all about!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to this feature of Google groups, I cannot participate in any such lists\/groups for as long as I keep my greylisting activated since it&#8217;ll keep disabling mail delivery to me.<\/p>\n<p>Enabling greylisting decreased my spam flood to roughly a third of the previous volume (and now I&#8217;m at 500-1000 spam emails\/day) so I&#8217;m not ready to disable it yet. I just have to not use google groups.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> I threw in the towel and I now whitelist google.com servers to get around this problem&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Google, Here&#8217;s a Wikipedia article for you: Greylisting. After you&#8217;ve read that, then consider the error message I always get for my groups.google.com account when you disable mail sending to me due to &#8220;bouncing&#8221;: Bounce status Your email address is currently flagged as bouncing. For additional information or to correct this, view your email &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2014\/03\/27\/google-groups-com-hates-greylisting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">groups.google.com hates greylisting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,45],"tags":[314,382,383,38],"class_list":["post-5601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mail","category-web","tag-google","tag-greylisting","tag-smtp","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5601"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5624,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5601\/revisions\/5624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}