"...but I wasn't spamming..."

[Tygur]

I hope that subject was good enough. I wasn't sure what to put up there.

I just found out the hard way that the host for my site has some sort of an automated spam prevention system. The problem is that I wasn't spamming. I hate spam just as much as the next guy, but there is a problem if the prevention systems are inconveniencing us non-spammers.

My website sends out an email report whenever there is an error on my site. This is so that I know early on when something goes wrong. Unfortunately, some PHP script on someone's computer started requesting lots of pages on my site that don't exist. A separate email was sent to me reporting each 404 error. My host detected that an abnormal amount of emails were being sent and put my site "on probation". This means that, while the site still works, it can't send email anymore, until they come in and check out my scripts.

I think that system of theirs should've been checking where those emails were going. Each and every one of those emails was sent directly to me, through the email address provided by them. I don't even think it is possible for me to spam myself...

I learned my lesson, though. I'll be chnging it to send out daily error reports instead of an email per error. I would've liked to have been warned about this, though...

[cracked]

have you talked to them? tell them what is happening, maybe they will fix it.

drew

[NeoStarO1]

I agree with Cracked, call up the business that host's your site and explain to them how you had your scripts set up for error reporting. Also can use the idea of sending on one daily error reporting feature as a leverage to get your host off probation status.

Let us know how it goes.