I don't get any mails / answers from the eCos ezmlm

I don't get any mails / answers from the eCos ezmlm

[Heiko Panther]

Hi,

I've been advised to post this problem here. Since June 1st, I don't get any mails from the ecos-discuss mailing lists or the mailing list manager program. No subscribe/unsubscribe mails are answered, no list digests are sent to me. Also no answer to an ecos-discuss-get mail. No reaction whatsoever. Web subscribe doesn't cause anything either. Same seems to be true for ecos-devel. Can anyone figure out what's the problem?

Thanks a lot,
Heiko

Re: I don't get any mails / answers from the eCos ezmlm

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Heiko Panther <heiko.panther@web.de> writes:

> I've been advised to post this problem here. Since June 1st, I don't
> get any mails from the ecos-discuss mailing lists or the mailing
> list manager program. No subscribe/unsubscribe mails are answered,
> no list digests are sent to me. Also no answer to an
> ecos-discuss-get mail. No reaction whatsoever. Web subscribe doesn't
> cause anything either. Same seems to be true for ecos-devel. Can
> anyone figure out what's the problem?

The only web.de address I see on either list is wysiwyh@web.de.  Is
that you?

Looking in the logs for e-mail to that address, I see this:

deferral: Connected_to_217.72.192.149_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed._Visit_http://freemail.web.de/reject_for_explanation./

(In this message, spaces and are non-graphical character are converted
to '_').  Visiting http://freemail.web.de/reject, it discusses the
possibility of looking up an IP address, but I don't see how.

Anyhow, apparently all e-mail from sourceware is being blocked by
web.de.  You will have to contact them to find out why.

Ian

Re: I don't get any mails / answers from the eCos ezmlm

[Jonathan Larmour]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Heiko Panther <heiko.panther@web.de> writes:
> 
> 
>>I've been advised to post this problem here.

[By me]

>> Since June 1st, I don't
>>get any mails from the ecos-discuss mailing lists or the mailing
>>list manager program. No subscribe/unsubscribe mails are answered,
>>no list digests are sent to me. Also no answer to an
>>ecos-discuss-get mail. No reaction whatsoever. Web subscribe doesn't
>>cause anything either. Same seems to be true for ecos-devel. Can
>>anyone figure out what's the problem?
> 
> 
> The only web.de address I see on either list is wysiwyh@web.de.  Is
> that you?

It isn't.

> Looking in the logs for e-mail to that address, I see this:
> 
> deferral: Connected_to_217.72.192.149_but_my_name_was_rejected./Remote_host_said:_554_Transaction_failed._Visit_http://freemail.web.de/reject_for_explanation./

Ah, that makes it sense then. And he won't be on the subscriber list by now 
because ezmlm will have cancelled it for excessive bounces.

> (In this message, spaces and are non-graphical character are converted
> to '_').  Visiting http://freemail.web.de/reject, it discusses the
> possibility of looking up an IP address, but I don't see how.

I notice on this page:
-=-=-=-=-
  Automatic identification of a server as a Spam mail server:

According to our frequency measurement, your server has been identified as 
a Spam mail server. This might point to a virus contamination concerning 
your system or the clients using the system for dispatch. This automatic 
evaluation might be erroneous due to large amounts of E-Mails being sent 
out (e.g. dispatch of newsletters etc.) by your server – please investigate 
within your system to that effect. Generally this rejection persists only 
for a temporary amount of time; however, if problems concerning E-Mail 
dispatch consist, please contact us for further investigation.
-=-=-=-=-=-

So it does frequency measurement, which means, what with the many 
high-bandwidth lists on sourceware, it's bound to hit whatever triggers it 
has. It's up to Heiko (as a customer) to get them to permanently whitelist 
sourceware.org. It's possible it was whitelisted before, but there was a 
recent-ish change of sourceware's IP address, which might explain how it 
suddenly started.

Jifl
-- 
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Re: I don't get any mails / answers from the eCos ezmlm

[Christopher Faylor]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:54:39PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote:
>So it does frequency measurement, which means, what with the many 
>high-bandwidth lists on sourceware, it's bound to hit whatever triggers it 
>has. It's up to Heiko (as a customer) to get them to permanently whitelist 
>sourceware.org. It's possible it was whitelisted before, but there was a 
>recent-ish change of sourceware's IP address, which might explain how it 
>suddenly started.

I'd actually be interested in seeing what supposedly triggered the
blockage.  I wonder if they are clever enough to check the headers so as
not to falsely accuse a site just because they saw a
"ecos-discuss-BLAH-sourceware-X-org" in the From address.

cgf

Re: I don't get any mails / answers from the eCos ezmlm

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Heiko Panther <heiko.panther@web.de> writes:

> Thanks for the help guys.
> I contacted web.de. Just to make sure, the sender IP is [12.107.209.250] (helo=sourceware.org) ?

Correct.

Ian

I don't get any mails / answers from the eCos ezmlm

[Heiko Panther]

Thanks for the help guys.
I contacted web.de. Just to make sure, the sender IP is [12.107.209.250] (helo=sourceware.org) ?

Heiko