Re: Am I blocked from posting on gcc.gnu.org lists?

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl@jifvik.org>]

François-Xavier Coudert wrote:
> Dear overseers,
> 
> I appear to be currently blocked from posting to (at least) the
> gcc@gcc.gnu.org and gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org mailing lists. For
> example, a recent mail with subject "MetaHTML and the GCC web site"
> was sent by me to gcc@gcc.gnu.org (full headers of that mail are
> below) on 27 Sep 2007 08:51:06 +0100, but never delivered to the list.
> The interesting fact is that I didn't receive any bounce (I checked my
> spam box).
> 
> Could you look into that matter and tell me and I am blocked and what
> triggered it?

I dug up the following log extracts pertaining to the message. Spamassassin 
thought it was ok:


Sep 27 07:52:33 sourceware spamd[24802]: spamd: clean message (-2.6/5.0) 
for smtpd:22791 in 1.8 seconds, 3486 bytes.
Sep 27 07:52:33 sourceware spamd[24802]: spamd: result: . -2 - 
AWL,BAYES_00,DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,DK_SIGNED,SPF_PASS 
scantime=1.8,size=3486,user=smtpd,uid=22791,required_score=5.0,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=/var/run/spamd,mid=<88507354-ED4C-4317-A1A4-7D1102319D8E@gmail.com>,bayes=7.32747196252603e-12,autolearn=ham

But mail delivery detected spam:

@4000000046fb614c0062889c info msg 24885645: bytes 3584 from 
<fxcoudert@gmail.com> qp 24847 uid 22791
@4000000046fb614c050cafbc starting delivery 775798: msg 24885645 to local 
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
@4000000046fb614c050e78c4 status: local 1/20 remote 4/255
@4000000046fb614c15abff1c delivery 775798: success: 
mlcheck:_spam_detected_-_exit_status_n=1,_99did_0+0+2/
@4000000046fb614c15adc054 status: local 0/20 remote 4/255
@4000000046fb614c15ae9b14 end msg 24885645

The mlcheck wrapper script said this:

Sep 27 07:52:34 sourceware spam: -!*blocked: fxcoudert@gmail.com 
209.85.128.191 -> gcc@gcc.gnu.org (global body, SA: score=-2.6 required=5.0 
tests=PRESCANNED,AWL,BAYES_00,DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME,DK_SIGNED,SPF_PASS)

"global body" means something in the message body was flagged as possibly spam.

The easiest work around is to post to the list from the same address you 
are subscribed with - subscribers automatically don't receive this check. 
Or if you want to allow this through anyway, you can email from your gmail 
account to global-allow-subscribe-YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS@gcc.gnu.org

where YOUR_EMAIL_ADDRESS is fxcoudert=gmail.com (sorry I've obfuscated it - 
don't want list archive address scrapers to nab it).

Failing that you can try and work out what it was in the body of your 
message that caused the problem. If you're really concerned you can mail me 
off list with the message body.

Jifl

> Full headers of the first blocked mail:
> 
> Return-Path: <fxcoudert@gmail.com>
> Received: from ?192.168.0.5? ( [90.193.94.8])
>         by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c4sm2003649nfi.2007.09.27.00.51.08
>         (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER);
>         Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:52:27 -0700 (PDT)
> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3)
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> Message-Id: <88507354-ED4C-4317-A1A4-7D1102319D8E@gmail.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> From: FX Coudert <fxcoudert@gmail.com>
> Subject: MetaHTML and the GCC web site
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:51:06 +0100
> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3)
> 


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