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Old September 16th, 2010, 12:18 PM
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Reaching SMTP Relay Limit, endless loop?
I keep reaching an SMTP relay limit on a godaddy virtual dedicated server. I've turned off bounce back and catchall emails. I'm trying to figure out the mail logs and I'm seeing a lot of failure notices. Any suggestions?

Code:
[root@ip-______________ ~]# /var/qmail/bin/qmail-qstat
messages in queue: 28
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0

[root@ip-______________ ~]# vi /var/qmail/queue/mess/7/21880781

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<___________@gmail.com>:
208.109.80.54 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 Message refused.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net>
Received: (qmail 9443 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 03:52:33 -0700
Delivered-To: postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
Received: (qmail 9433 invoked for bounce); 16 Sep 2010 03:52:32 -0700
Date: 16 Sep 2010 03:52:32 -0700
From: MAILER-DAEMON@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
To: postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<___________@gmail.com>:
208.109.80.54 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 Message refused.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net>
Received: (qmail 9426 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 03:52:31 -0700
Delivered-To: postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
Received: (qmail 9421 invoked for bounce); 16 Sep 2010 03:52:31 -0700
Date: 16 Sep 2010 03:52:31 -0700
From: MAILER-DAEMON@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
To: postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<___________@gmail.com>:
208.109.80.54 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 Message refused.

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.

Return-Path: <postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net>
Received: (qmail 9418 invoked by alias); 16 Sep 2010 03:52:30 -0700
Delivered-To: postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
Received: (qmail 9414 invoked for bounce); 16 Sep 2010 03:52:30 -0700
Date: 16 Sep 2010 03:52:30 -0700
From: MAILER-DAEMON@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
To: postmaster@ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net
Subject: failure notice

Hi. This is the qmail-send program at ip-______________.ip.secureserver.net.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<___________@gmail.com>:
208.109.80.54 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 554 Message refused.
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Old September 16th, 2010, 04:16 PM
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Usually the remote host will provide a bounce message when it refuses to accept a mail message. Check the 'from' user mailbox. If you don't see anything there maybe the receiving server admin can help identify the problem.

You might check your mailserver IP against RBL lists, perhaps you've ended up on a block list.
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Old September 17th, 2010, 03:01 PM
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Make sure your server is not sending out bounces for unknown users. I had a client that was sending bounces for email sent to unknown users. They were hit by an email dictionary attack and would easily hit Godaddy's limits.

I see you are using qmail. Is this a plesk server? If so, you can set the email to reject in the email configuration settings on the domain level
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