On 2025-09-18 18:59, Scott Q. via mailop wrote:
Would you guys mind sharing the blocks you are throttling / blocking ?

For our purposes. This is a process. The blocks we maintain are ever-changing.
minute-to-minute, day-to-day, ...
IOW unless you intend to maintain the block, read; monitor. You'll potentially be blocking innocent IPs. IOW our block containing the bc.googleusercontent.com IPs are not contiguous CIDR's. There are many /32's. We add and remove IPs from this block all day. In fact, I see we some 100,000 slated to be added shortly. IMHO for your perceived purposes. You might (as we already do) simply set your MX to REJECT
on bc.googleusercontent.com.

FWIW it's currently at 1,416,389 single IPs with ~100,000 to add.

HTH

--Chris

What we did for now is simply looking up the PTR for any 34/8 and 35/8
connecting IP and if it ends with googleusercontent.com give it some
spam points.

Thanks!



Scott


On Thursday, 18/09/2025 at 16:06 Chris via mailop wrote:




On 2025-09-18 08:34, Michael Peddemors via mailop wrote:
*.googleusercontent.com should not only not be sending email (either
change
PTR,
or use a relay) so you can go beyond scoring, and simply reject.

Also, given the history of abuse and/or compromises, we also
recommend that
you do
NOT allow email authentication from those IPs, except as permitted
in an
allow
.acl.

Make sense?

I concur.
We've been dropping packets originating from them without so much as
an ACK
for some 5yrs.
Without *any* repercussions. Just reject. Your life will be much
better for
it. :)


On 2025-09-16 07:58, Scott Q. via mailop wrote:
Sorry for reviving an older thread, we are still battling this
Google spam
issue.

Anyone else scoring e-mails directly received from IPs with a PTR
of
*.googleusercontent.com ? Any downside to doing this ?

Gmail/Workspace doesn't use that PTR but are there legitimate
Google
services that do ?

Thanks!
Scott

On Thursday, 04/09/2025 at 16:21 Alex Burch wrote:

     They might have legacy accounts where port 25 is
unblocked. I think
     Infusionsoft/Keap had their IPs hosted at GCP at one point
and they
     had the port 25 block lifted to send with them.
     Thanks,
     Alex


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     On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 9:12 AM Scott Q. via mailop
      wrote:

         I get that, but the question is more whether GCP
blocks outbound
         port 25 or not.

         Their docs say they are blocking it:
        
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/tutorials/sending-mail
        

         yet we see evidence to the contrary. Surely it's a
configuration
         mistake somewhere (?).

         Maybe someone from Google can shed some light on
this.

         Thanks!

         On Thursday, 04/09/2025 at 11:25 Michael Peddemors
via mailop
wrote:

             Careful.. the list admins don't like us
using this list to
             complain
             about spam, but yeah..

             Anything with a PTR of
1.132.64.34.bc.googleusercontent.com
             . is suspect,
             and should be rejected (port 25) ...

             Standard ruleset for a couple of years..
but even more
             important, is the
             number of IPs in those ranges used in email
hacking, and BEC
             Compromise
             attacks.

             You might even like to block attempts to
other ports by
             default, and
             create a 'permitted' acl for IPs in those
ranges for
             legitimate use.

             On 2025-09-04 07:55, Scott Q. via mailop
wrote:
              > Anyone else seeing an uptick lately of
Spam e-mails
             originating from
              > these ranges ?
              >
              > 34.64.132.0/22
              > 35.240.0.0/13
              >
              > Mostly e-mails with: Content-Type:
text/plain;
             charset="iso-2022-jp"
              >
              > What's interesting is that GCP has
outbound port 25
             blocked by default
              > yet these hosts are able to do
direct-to-mx deliveries.
              >
              > If anyone from Google is reading this
- can you have a look
?
              >
              > Thanks!
              > Scott
              >
              >
              >
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