Delivery failures

I will check it out; the API may have changed.

I tried the Gmail API on my own site. I had no problems.

If you notice, Google added a message at the top of your bounce indicating why the message was rejected. Google thinks it’s Spam.

Why Google thinks this email is Spam, I have no idea. Could be the content. Could be that you bcc’d 50 people. Could be the frequency this account sends email. I don’t see anything suspicious with what you’ve posted.

Thanks for looking in to this. I think this happened because I created a new Gmail account I was going to switch to in order to prevent mails coming from me. It was confusing people when people were subscribed to forum topics on bbPress and they thought they were from me (given the notifications come from my email). That new account I created had some of the same info (ie – name, same cell phone, linked to my other Gmail account, etc..). I wonder if Googles outgoing spam filter is smart enough to consider that someone is sending a mass BCC email from a Gmail account tied to the same cell phone/name as a few others. Either that or they just strengthened their spam filter such that I am no longer allowed to BCC 30 users at a time.

I decreased the batch BCC to 10 for next time and deleted the additional Gmail account I intended on using. I also had some shortcodes in the email that I’ll remove manually next time (maybe Gmail finds those suspicious). Hopefully that helps.

Google also has a contact form on that page if you want to explain to them why your message wasn’t spam. If they follow up with an explanation/remedy I’ll update this. Thanks again!

I would guess being a new account and mailing many new people at once is what got you bounced.

BTW, you can use Gmail’s Send Mail As feature together with Postman to change the email that appears in the From field.

See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/22370?hl=en
And related issues https://www.ads-software.com/tags/send-mail-as

Thanks. I hadn’t actually configured SMTP Postman to use that new address yet, it’s failing from the same account I had been using. I just sent a new message with just plain text and it they still all bounced. I’ll see if Google follows up with an explanation. Thanks again,

Return-path: <>
Envelope-to: [email protected]
Delivery-date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:20:22 -0400
Received: from mailnull by business24.web-hosting.com with local (Exim 4.86_1)
id 1agwCM-000cbl-G5
for [email protected]; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:20:22 -0400
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Mail failure – rejected by local scanning code
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:20:22 -0400

A message that you sent was rejected by the local scanning code that
checks incoming messages on this system. The following error was given:

“Relaying not permitted”

—— This is a copy of your message, including all the headers. ——

Received: from thretveb by business24.web-hosting.com with local (Exim 4.86_1)
(envelope-from <[email protected]>)
id 1agwCM-000cbf-E2
for [email protected]; Fri, 18 Mar 2016 11:20:22 -0400
To: lowellyarbroug <[email protected]>
Subject: [Doug’s Direct] Activate your account
X-PHP-Originating-Script: 631:class-phpmailer.php
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 15:20:22 +0000
From: Doug’s Direct <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Doug’s Direct <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.14 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)
X-BuddyPress: 2.5.1
X-BuddyPress-Type: core-user-registration
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
boundary=”b1_d9a3b538143651bb825ff2d56ae31dac”
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Sender: <[email protected]>

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

–b1_d9a3b538143651bb825ff2d56ae31dac
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Thanks for registering!

To complete the activation of your account, go to the following link: https://dougsdirect.com/activate/de7bb11118d5ed38/

–b1_d9a3b538143651bb825ff2d56ae31dac
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;
<html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”&gt;
<head>
<meta charset=”UTF-8″>
<meta name=”viewport” content=”width=device-width”> <!– Forcing initial-scale shouldn’t be necessary –>
<meta http-equiv=”X-UA-Compatible” content=”IE=edge”> <!– Use the latest (edge) version of IE rendering engine –>

<!– CSS Reset –>
<style type=”text/css”>
/* What it does: Remove spaces around the email design added by some email clients. */
/* Beware: It can remove the padding / margin and add a background color to the compose a reply window. */
html,
body {
Margin: 0 !important;
padding: 0 !important;
height: 100% !important;
width: 100% !important;
}

/* What it does: Stops email clients resizing small text. */
* {
-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
}

/* What it does: Forces Outlook.com to display emails full width. */
.ExternalClass {
width: 100%;
}

/* What is does: Centers email on Android 4.4 */
div[style*=”margin: 16px 0″] {
margin: 0 !important;
}

/* What it does: Stops Outlook from adding extra spacing to tables. */
table,
td {
mso-table-lspace: 0pt !important;
mso-table-rspace: 0pt !important;
}

/* What it does: Fixes webkit padding issue. Fix for Yahoo mail table alignment bug. Applies table-layout to the first 2 tables then removes for anything nested deeper. */
table {
border-spacing: 0 !important;
border-collapse: collapse !important;
table-layout: fixed !important;
Margin: 0 auto !important;
}
table table table {
table-layout: auto;
}

/* What it does: Uses a better rendering method when resizing images in IE. */
/* & manages img max widths to ensure content body images don’t exceed template width. */
img {
-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic;
height: auto;
max-width: 100%;
}

/* What it does: Overrides styles added when Yahoo’s auto-senses a link. */
.yshortcuts a {
border-bottom: none !important;
}

/* What it does: A work-around for iOS meddling in triggered links. */
a[x-apple-data-detectors] {
color: inherit !important;
text-decoration: underline !important;
}
</style>

</head>
<body class=”email_bg” width=”100%” height=”100%” bgcolor=”#F7F3F0″ style=”Margin: 0;”>
<table cellpadding=”0″ cellspacing=”0″ border=”0″ height=”100%” width=”100%” bgcolor=”#F7F3F0″ style=”border-collapse:collapse;” class=”email_bg”><tr><td valign=”top”>
<center style=”width: 100%;”>

<!– Visually Hidden Preheader Text : BEGIN –>
<div style=”display: none; font-size: 1px; line-height: 1px; max-height: 0px; max-width: 0px; opacity: 0; overflow: hidden; mso-hide: all; font-family: sans-serif;”>

</div>
<!– Visually Hidden Preheader Text : END –>

<div style=”max-width: 600px;”>
<!–[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
<table cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″ width=”600″ align=”center”>
<tr>
<td>
<![endif]–>

<!– Email Header : BEGIN –>
<table cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″ align=”center” width=”100%” style=”max-width: 600px; border-top: 7px solid #D84800″ class=”header_bg”>
<tr>
<td style=”text-align: center; padding: 15px 0; font-family: sans-serif; mso-height-rule: exactly; font-weight: bold; color: #000000; font-size: 30px” class=”header_text_color header_text_size”>
Doug's Direct </td>
</tr>
</table>
<!– Email Header : END –>

<!– Email Body : BEGIN –>
<table cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″ align=”center” bgcolor=”#FFFFFF” width=”100%” style=”max-width: 600px; border-radius: 5px;” class=”body_bg”>

<!– 1 Column Text : BEGIN –>
<tr>
<td>
<table cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″ width=”100%”>
<tr>
<td style=”padding: 20px; font-family: sans-serif; mso-height-rule: exactly; line-height: 24px; color: #555555; font-size: 15px” class=”body_text_color body_text_size”>
<span style=”font-weight: bold; font-size: 20px” class=”welcome”>Hi lowellyarbroug,</span>
<hr color=”#F7F3F0″>
Thanks for registering!

To complete the activation of your account, go to the following link: https://dougsdirect.com/activate/de7bb11118d5ed38/
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<!– 1 Column Text : BEGIN –>

</table>
<!– Email Body : END –>

<!– Email Footer : BEGIN –>

<table cellspacing=”0″ cellpadding=”0″ border=”0″ align=”left” width=”100%” style=”max-width: 600px; border-radius: 5px;” bgcolor=”#F7F3F0″ class=”footer_bg”>
<tr>
<td style=”padding: 20px; width: 100%; font-size: 12px; font-family: sans-serif; mso-height-rule: exactly; line-height: 19px; text-align: left; color: #525252;” class=”footer_text_color footer_text_size”>

<span class=”footer_text”>© 2016 Doug's Direct</span>

unsubscribe

</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!– Email Footer : END –>

<!–[if (gte mso 9)|(IE)]>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<![endif]–>
</div>
</center>
</td></tr></table>
</body>
</html>

–b1_d9a3b538143651bb825ff2d56ae31dac–
This is one of two error messages for bounce back emails for new subscribers I get hundreds everyday

@genehowland54

X-PHP-Originating-Script: 631:class-phpmailer.php
X-Mailer: PHPMailer 5.2.14 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)

This email was not sent by the Postman plugin for WordPress. This forum is for users of the Postman plugin.

Cheers,
Jason