Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:38 GMT From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: misc/85087: send-pr should prefer to use HTTP, rather than mail Message-ID: <200508181400.j7IE0c5j013524@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR misc/85087; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/85087: send-pr should prefer to use HTTP, rather than mail Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 16:54:40 +0300 On 2005-08-18 12:02, Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> wrote: > > I had attempted to send-pr last week, but it never went through. It > turns out that the freebsd.org MTA won't accept mail from my server: > > Aug 11 23:45:57 go sm-mta[38236]: j7BCiYG9019787: > to=<FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org>, ctladdr=<bob@go.mochibot.com> > (1001/1001), delay=18:01:22, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, > pri=3362068, relay=mx1.freebsd.org. [216.136.204.125], dsn=4.2.0, > stat=Deferred: 450 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, > [216.200.21.218] The problem is one that can be solved by properly configuring your DNS setup. There is a very good reason why the MX of FreeBSD.org refuses to accept email from unresolvable addresses. It saves us from a ton of spam mail :-) > Use send-pr from a machine where the MTA is misconfigured, the reverse > DNS isn't correct, etc. That's not a send-pr bug, neither an MX bug in FreeBSD.org, IMHO. > If send-pr could post via http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html, this > problem would go away. It's a lot more likely that HTTP would go > through. > > This shouldn't be too hard to do with the existing shell script > infrastructure via curl, or a similar utility. Only this is not possible either. The web-based bug submission form includes an image that is human-readable, but cannot easily be handled by a script. You should really look into fixing your DNS problems. Posting email from an address that doesn't resolve properly these days is a bit silly, since many servers use DNS queries to filter out most of the "naive spammers who don't have valid forward & backward resolution set up correctly". You'll have problems with other mail servers too, until you fix your DNS setup.help
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