On Fri, 2006-07-28 at 21:39 +0100, Martin Simmons wrote: > >>>>> On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 16:04:27 -0400, DAve said: > > > > Jo Rhett wrote: > > >> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Jo Rhett wrote: > > >>> This has to rank as one of the stupidest spam detection measures I > > >>> have ever seen. > > > > I was confronted with the same problem back in 1998 and I used ssmtp. I > > think it was ssmtp, that was a long time ago. I set it up and continued > > to use Mutt (which is still my favorite MUA though I have to use OE and > > Thunderbird now) with no further problems. This is not a new issue, and > > it is certainly not unsurmountable. > > > OK, here is one piece of useful info: I just posted to bacula-users using a > GNU Emacs mail client, connecting to a sendmail mail server that is behind a > firewall. The message was accepted by sourceforge and delivered back to me > and also reached the nabble.com archive, so I think that shows that it can > work without GUI mail clients. >
The important thing is the SMTP envelope address that is presented to sourceforge and not the original envelope generated by the sender. As I understand it sf just checks whether the mail servers for your domain will accept mail to the address that is sending the mail. In your case you originally posted as [EMAIL PROTECTED] but that obviously went via "official" lispworks.com mail servers that rewrote the envelope to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] That is the address that was presented to sourceforge. Now if I'm correct then sourceforge are not necessarily contacting the sending mail server but rather attempting to connect to a valid mailserver (from DNS) for the envelope address. Obviously something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] would not resolve in DNS and hence cannot be delivered correctly. Received: from mail.lispworks.com ([212.44.26.25] helo=lwfs1-cam.cam.lispworks.com) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1G6Z72-0004Ip-KF for bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:39:13 -0700 Received: from higson.cam.lispworks.com (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [192.168.1.7]) by lwfs1-cam.cam.lispworks.com (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k6SKcgiJ082253; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:38:42 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) ... Received: (from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) by higson.cam.lispworks.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k6SKdCLk032614; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:39:12 +0100 This could all be further complicated if sourceforge checks SPF details and you have defined SPF records in your domain names. Hope this helps Richard -- Richard Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
