[Mailman] RE: SpamBayes mailing list bounces my messages

[Tony Meyer]

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 at 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 at 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 at 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 at 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.
>             <PKCVT01.pkc.com #4.0.0 smtp;450 Client host 
> 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 <lilray at sover.net>; 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!
>