Mark Drew (Redux)- cf_etc...

Let me also add to your comments section, since it will soon be purged.

Hehe, well, if I ever get the contents of my old blog, these will obviously dissapear, otherwise, your comments will stay here ... FOREVER!

@Tom :-)
@Mark, if you haven't been getting my emails about the server, I'm getting bouncebacks from Google as follows:

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.
YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.
Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.
mark*****@gmail.com
(I added the asterisks to munge it)

and there is an attached text file, the contents of which read:

Reporting-MTA: dns;mail.edgewebhosting.net

Final-Recipient: rfc822;mark*****@gmail.com
Action: delayed
Status: 4.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;450-4.2.1 The Gmail user you are trying to contact is receiving
450-4.2.1 mail at a rate that prevents additional messages from
450-4.2.1 being delivered. Please resend your message at a later
450-4.2.1 time; if the user is able to receive mail at that time,
450 4.2.1 your message will be delivered. 38si1329761nza
Will-Retry-Until: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 16:17:12 -0400
X-Display-Name: Mark Drew

Just wanted to be sure you knew I was attempting to answer your questions in case none of my emails have made it through.

Yes, yes you did...
Status: 5.2.2 (mailbox full)

Can you check the headers of the messages to maybe see what is going on or send them to me? Is it possible to see what the original message was? The mail server doesn't have any mailboxes for your markdrew.co.uk domain set up to forward to your Gmail account (or anywhere else) so I'm not sure what's going on with that yet. The headers will tell the story, it's possible there's some spoofing going on or some other such mischief. Either that, or they're coming in through your website / server, being handed off to our mail servers which couldn't deliver them when your mailbox was full. We'll help you sort out what's going on for sure, but obviously we're not generating spam and loading you up with it for fun... ;) (evil laugh)

Are they the same email that you forwarded me earlier? The one that appeared to be an error notification from rss.cfm? Basically, what's happening is when you switched your name servers, our nameservers still had the domain pointed at the shared server account we set up for you so long ago. That's my fault, I checked DNS Saturday afternoon after I got your emai about having to switch immediately because you were down and saw that we already had the domain set up with an IP that looked right. I should have logged in to your server and verified that IP was in fact correct, and if I was a regular tech support guy here I would have known to do that. Sorry, just trying to help out. Anyway, the code on the shared server was not ready for prime time and emailed you an error every time something tried to aggregate your blog (and that's quite a few according to the log files!). Also, according to the logs on that shared server traffic quieted down on Tuesday around midnight GMT. Some slow to update caching DNS servers let readers hit the shared site on Wednesday, but not many and by today it was just one hit.

The repeated error notification emails eventually filled up your Gmail account, the subsequent ones bounced and out mail servers are holding them to attempt delivery again later. The emails shouldn't live any longer than 18 hours, so this storm should be almost over.

So we can get a handle on the volume on the mail server, could you forward me the most recent one you've gotten? It will have the time associated with it so if it was generated close to the end of the day Tuesday then this is almost over. I also have one of our techs who is going to check the outgoing mail server to see if we can stop any further bounced messages from going out to your email address (I'm no PowerMTA guru or I'd do it). He's out and about and it's going to take him a few to get in front of a secure computer, but if we can stop them on the server that should stop it once and for all.

No mail loop, just a mail server trying to be courteous and make sure you get all your email. Seriously, sorry for the trouble.

I removed the files from the FTP server (the one that had coldfusing.com on). I think these are different servers and I jsut got RSS'd to hell and back.