From tameyer at ihug.co.nz Fri Jul 30 01:27:03 2004 From: tameyer at ihug.co.nz (Tony Meyer) Date: Tue Aug 10 13:54:08 2004 Subject: [Mailman] RE: SpamBayes mailing list bounces my messages In-Reply-To: <1ED4ECF91CDED24C8D012BCF2B034F130734E32B@its-xchg4.massey.ac.nz> Message-ID: <1ED4ECF91CDED24C8D012BCF2B034F13064C0319@its-xchg4.massey.ac.nz> Hi Jesse, I'm not able to help you with this, sorry. Presumably you'll need to talk to the administrators of the mail.python.org mailing lists (mailman@python.org, I believe). I've cc'd this to them & hopefully they can help you. Cheers, Tony Meyer > -----Original Message----- > From: Jesse Pelton [mailto:jsp@PKC.com] > Sent: Friday, 30 July 2004 4:47 a.m. > To: Tony Meyer > Subject: SpamBayes mailing list bounces my messages > > > I write directly to you reluctantly, but I can't think of any > other way to address the problem. I subscribed to > spambayes@python.org a couple of days ago. I had no problem > with the registration process, meaning that I received the > expected email response to my registration request and > clicking the http: link in that response appeared to succeed. > However, the first message I sent came back undeliverable > today. Other messages that I've sent have not shown up in > the archive, so I assume they are not being accepted either. > > The bounce message reads as follows: > > Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients. > > Subject: SpamBayes for Outlook feature request > Sent: 7/27/2004 9:45 AM > > The following recipient(s) could not be reached: > > spambayes@python.org on 7/29/2004 9:50 AM > The e-mail system was unable to deliver the > message, but did not report a specific reason. Check the > address and try again. If it still fails, contact your > system administrator. > rejected: cannot find your hostname, [216.75.143.162]> > > The last line looks like a reverse DNS lookup failed. My > system administrator ran some tests and believes that our > reverse DNS entry is set up properly. One of his test > messages came through with the following header: > > Received: from pkc.com (pkc.com [216.75.143.162] (may be > forged)) by mx2.sover.net (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id > i6TE8YOQ008433 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2004 > 10:08:37 -0400 (EDT) > > That "may be forged" looks suspicious, but we're not sure > what to do about it. Our firewall replaces internal network > addresses with our public address on outgoing messages. > > I'd like to be able to participate in the spambayes mailing > list. Do you have any insight into what the problem might be > and/or ideas about how to work around it? > > Thanks! >