Mails to Google being blocked for illegal attachments

foks lists at foks.se
Sat Oct 1 14:24:40 UTC 2011


On Sep 30, 2011 13:34 "Alex Brooks" <askoorb+nanog at gmail.com>
<askoorb+nanog at gmail.com>
<askoorb+nanog at gmail.com> <askoorb+nanog at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:19 PM, foks <lists at foks.se> <lists at foks.se>
> <lists at foks.se>
> wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Since Sep 7 Google has bounced a specific type of our mails with
> > this
> > message:
> > 
> > host aspmx.l.google.com[74.125.43.27] said: 552-5.7.0 Our system
> > detected an illegal attachment on your message. Please 552-5.7.0
> > visit
> > <http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6590> to 552
> > 5.7.0
> > review our attachment guidelines. z4si211085bkd.116 (in reply to end
> > of
> > DATA command)
> > 
> > The only attachment is a gif image so it seems that Googles check is
> > wrong. Has anyone experienced this issue, or has any helpful contact
> > information to Google? I have checked
> > <http://www.google.com/support/a/bin/static.py?page=contacting_suppo
> > rt.ht>
> > ml and called these numbers, but they were not able to help me.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Have you reported it through their support pages? The one you're
> after is probably:
> <https://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=gtag_head
> ers&group=bugflow_attachmentsnewbug&trouble_type=attachments>
> 
> Generally, checking
> <https://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs>
> is
> the first place to go with GMail issues if you're not an Apps
> customer; they have a link to reporting problems at the bottom.
> Though if you're not an Apps customer (or can't find one to report the
> issue on your behalf as not receiving e-mails from you), I wouldn't
> hold out too much hope for a response from it.
> 
> Do let us know how you solve the problem in the end.
> 
> Alex
> 

Hi,

Thank you for reply. I have reported it there yesterday. No response
yet.

I also tried to send the same mail without the attached gif image, so it
seems to be something else that triggers the error message.

/Jörgen



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