Google Calendar: Daily Emails Despite a Year of SMTP Rejections
Google Calendar is sending daily bulk email notifications to a spamtrap. The spamtrap was recently re-enabled after its timeout period, which means that for a period of over twelve consecutive months, it issued 500-level SMTP rejections to the daily Google Calendar email notifications. It is likely that this spamtrap years ago, when live, was subscribed to Google Calendar notifications. However, after a year of 500-level rejections to a daily bulk email, those emails need to have stopped. These did not, and are now spam. Google needs to fix its broken bounce processing for Google Calendar NOW.
Sending IP: 209.85.161.202
Spam Sample:
Actual Headers:
Received: from mail-gx0-f202.google.com (mail-gx0-f202.google.com [209.85.161.202]) by <xxx> (Postfix) with ESMTP id <xxx> for <xxx>; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 <xxx> -0600 (CST) Received: by <xxx> with SMTP id <xxx> for <xxx>; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 <xxx> -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: <xxx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.xx.xx with SMTP id <xxx>; Sun, 22 Jan 2012 <xxx> -0800 (PST) Reply-To: <xxx> <xxx> Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Message-ID: <<xxx>@google.com> Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 <xxx> +0000 Subject: You have no events scheduled today. From: Google Calendar <calendar-notification@google.com> To: <xxx> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=<xxx>
Readable Email:
From: Google Calendar <calendar-notification@google.com>
To: <spamtrap>
Subject: You have no events scheduled today.
Reply-To: <spamtrap>
<xxx>, you have no events scheduled today Sun Jan 22, 2012.
View your calendar at https://www.google.com/calendar/
You are receiving this email at the account <xxx> because you are subscribed to receive daily agendas for the following calendars: <xxx>.
To change which calendars you receive daily agendas for, please log in to https://www.google.com/calendar/ and change your notification settings for each calendar.