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From:
Seth Branum
To:
Brian Behlendorf
Cc:
IDM List
Date:
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:05:02 -0800
Subject:
Re: warning messages
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<CA+X_MLzSt3w52-P73J-gBOXq__6z+Rz-VyYrfwc3yP_LiUkCHQ@mail.gmail.com>
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This very helpful. Thank you Brian On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 8:03 AM Brian Behlendorf <brian@behlendorf.com> wrote:
quoted 63 lines Hello from your friendly IDM list admin,> Hello from your friendly IDM list admin, > > The mailing list manager we use, Ezmlm, is extremely cautious about > dealing with bounce messages. If it sees even just one failed message (and > messages sporadically fail with depressing regularity, particularly > sending to gmail), it'll send you directly a "probe" a few days later, > which will send you details about the bounce it's seeing. If that probe > *also* fails, then it will remove the address. But if it succeeds - which > is the warning message you're seeing - then you won't be removed. However > that warning message also likely contains details about why the bounce > happened - what the message was back from the server it tried to send to, > for instance, or if there was a local issue on hyperreal, which there > hasn't been, to my knowledge. > > So if you're concerned, feel free to send me the bounce warning / probe > message you get, and I can try to figure out if gmail (and it's always > gmail) is bouncing these messages for something I can try to do something > about, such as being put on a spam blacklist. I don't get informed when > those kinds of warnings get sent because they're so frequent. But usually > the underlying causes of sporadic issues are things I have no control > over. > > For the more nerdly of you out there, Gmail is threatening to block all > mailing list emails in the future that don't use a generic "From" header > that matches the domain of the sending MTA based on DMARC rules. For > example, that means senders who use a @gmail.com address, but email to > idm@hyperreal.org, when that message comes back to Gmail they will block > it on the premise it looks like spam, despite that being how email > forwarding and email mailing lists have worked since day zero, and will > break email replies and otherwise make it challenging to know who sent an > email. I have no time/interest in modifying ezmlm to forge the From > headers to a generic address, as some other mailing list providers have > done, so if that happens and gmail was no longer accepting mailing list > emails from @hyperreal.org because of it, I'll probably just move all > these to groups.io and get out of the mailing list hosting hobby. > > Also btw if you want reliable email from mailing lists or non-gmail > senders, don't use gmail. > > Brian > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2024, Aleks tresorg wrote: > > got them for some time but then they stopped, > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 11:29 AM Aniek de Rooij <aniekderooij@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Yes, me too! > > > > Op di 12 nov 2024 om 11:28 schreef luca tommy tommasini < > scaleni@gmail.com>: > > > > Yes, me too > > > > > > Il mar 12 nov 2024, 10:05 Seth Branum <djmanos@gmail.com> ha > scritto: > > I keep getting these warning messages from idm-help. Not sure why > my gmail would bounce messages. Is > > anyone else getting these? > > > > > >