Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 03:10:42 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org> To: Craig Carey <snowfall@gmx.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Blocking addresses of non-spammers; bug reporting Message-ID: <20030318011042.GB2734@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20030317230131.034ddeb0@213.165.64.20> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20030317174305.03f7abc0@213.165.64.20> <200303131013.h2DADL386993@flip.jhs.private> <200303131013.h2DADL386993@flip.jhs.private> <5.2.0.9.2.20030316095750.035d3748@213.165.64.20> <5.2.0.9.2.20030317174305.03f7abc0@213.165.64.20> <5.2.0.9.2.20030317230131.034ddeb0@213.165.64.20>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2003-03-18 00:00, Craig Carey <snowfall@gmx.co.uk> wrote: >At 03\03\17 11:17 +0200 Monday, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> This post has reached freebsd-advocacy fine. What black-holing are >> you talking about? I don't see why you would be so persistent in >> claiming that your messages are blackholed in one of the lists that >> are hosted by the mail server that is allegedly blackholing your >> posts. . . > > After seeing that message (I now reply to) I tried an ISP e-mail > address I have. Nothing came back, suggesting a few things including > this. The problem then is with the ISP address you have. This indicates that at least part of the problem is something in th setup of the particular ISP. > FreeBSD's system is deleting a "www." and then using information > after that step. This is not necessarily true. > research@ijs.co.nz > -> 202.89.128.19 > -> www.qsi.net.nz > -> qsi.net.nz > -> No IP number What is research@ijs.co.nz ? Why is it related to the mail problems you're seeing? > [snip web whois queries] > So it could be a "DNS lookups on unnecessarily edited hostnames > fail" type of problem. While this is possible (of low possibility, however), see below... > The tests I was doing and did today, was to send e-mail to: > > The mail was sent from: > > <majordomo@freebsd.org> <-- mail came back > <research@ijs.co.nz> <-- mail did not come back What is the *exact* message returned to you when you tried to mail majordomo@freebsd.org ? > It is too early for me to comment on that (e.g. it still seems that > FreeBSD is losing the e-mail. It's not "losing" the message, if you got a delivery failure back, as you said above. It is "rejecting" it though, and the reason of the rejection should be clearly stated in the returned message. So, what was the exact text of this returned message? - - Giorgos -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+dnIS1g+UGjGGA7YRArPsAJ4i1+mig4bfw5HLPRwDaeRAuKw+SwCgpEig Xr0LQz9Z+ajbCOpRLeEjf8M= =J7qX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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