[SC-Help] Re: Sector 5 Policy - Googlemail

[Mike Easter]

Canopus wrote:
> I've searched Googlemail and the web, but, can't find an answer to
> this.
>
> Some spam submitted to SpamCop via my Googlemail account generates a
> mail delivery Failure Notification stating the reason as
> "PERM_FAILURE: Message rejected for Sector 5 policy reasons."  As I
> couldn't find any info anywhere what this means I mailed Google, but,
> it doesn't look as if I'll get a reply.  Anyone have any idea what is
> generating this bounce, what a Sector 5 Policy is?  It only happens
> once or twice a week so it's not too big an issue, but, if I can
> prevent it all the better.

Without doing any searching, or 'thinking' for that matter, my first
shoot-from-the-hip guess is that it simply refers to the non-specific
5xx permanent failure [as opposed to the temporary 4xx] family of
failure messages.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin