From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 18 14:00:38 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9FE616A41F for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F81B43D45 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7IE0cE1013530 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:38 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.3/8.13.1/Submit) id j7IE0c5j013524; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:38 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:38 GMT Message-Id: <200508181400.j7IE0c5j013524@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Subject: Re: misc/85087: send-pr should prefer to use HTTP, rather than mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Giorgos Keramidas List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 14:00:38 -0000 The following reply was made to PR misc/85087; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Bob Ippolito 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 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=, ctladdr= > (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.