Gmail blocked us...

[John Adams]

No idea why, but if you have an @gmail address, you will no longer receive updates from any of my services. Sometime in the last 2 weeks, someone (somehow) decided to blast @gmail from my IP and now I'm blocked.

(reason: 550-5.7.1 [68.98.218.5 1] Our system has detected an unusual rate of)

----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.:
>>> DATA
<<< 550-5.7.1 [68.98.218.5 1] Our system has detected an unusual rate of
<<< 550-5.7.1 unsolicited mail originating from your IP address. To protect our
<<< 550-5.7.1 users from spam, mail sent from your IP address has been blocked.
<<< 550-5.7.1 Please visit http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review
<<< 550 5.7.1 our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines. am2si34933106pad.96 - gsmtp
554 5.0.0 Service unavailable

No one but me can bulk email anyone, so I'm not exactly sure how this could have happened.

[John Adams]

I *think* I have this fixed, by using an SMTP server other than my own to send mail.

I will re-send the recent account activation emails to see if you can activate. If not, we'll figure something else out.