Gmail blocked related with Exim update?

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intersys

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I don't know if there any relation ?
  • I have updated to the latest version of Exim (Version 4.94.2)
  • 2 hours later i noticed i can't send mail to gmail users.
Our system has detected an unusual rate of unsolicited mail originating from your IP address.
To protect our users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been temporarily rate limited.
Please visit https://support.google.com/mail/?p=UnsolicitedRateLimitError to review our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines.
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What did i do to check?
  • Of course I visit the support page but no usefull information there.
  • I send a test mail to https://www.mail-tester.com/ and get 10 out of 10 score.
  • I have look with grep into my exim mainlog's but dont see a hi rate of mails to gmail for the past days
  • I waited for 36 hours now.
  • Only mails for gmail are waiting in the queue, after 24 hours about 50 messages for several domains.
Can i check something / somewhere else?
Or do i just have to wait to be enabled by google and is this a false positive.
 
intersys said:
I have look with grep into my exim mainlog's but dont see a hi rate of mails to gmail for the past days
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Might be send via a php script via the php mail function, in that case you won't see it passing exim's log.

You might have to use a find function on the php mail logs from users.
/home/username/.php/php-mail.log
 
Thanks for your idee.

I listed all files with
find /home/ -name "php-mail.log.*" -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lah

Then i focused on the largest files the larges file of all is 38K bytes big.
I look into that file and it have only 75 mails send to an administrator of wordpress errors.
So i think that is not a problem.

Other smaller files i look into also don't have strange content.
I log the php-mail log for 2 weeks.
 
intersys said:
I look into that file and it have only 75 mails send to an administrator of wordpress errors.
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Should be no issue if they were not send within the rate limit of Gmail.

Indeed odd that it's only Gmail then.

Not much you can do I guess, except maybe sign up for their postmaster tools and add the domain or just wait until the rate limit is done, because it's only temporarily.
However, if there's a bunch of things already waiting in the queue again, might be best to join their postmaster tools and see if you can find something from there.

Or maybe @mxroute has some good idea's about fixing this. He's experienced with mail flow.
 
Ok, just waited and now it working again, after 3 days.

The postmaster tools i signed in for, but there was no data to display :)

Case closed it had nothing to do with with exim update.
 
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