> On Jan 6, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > Larry Stone: >> Yep. Sadly, the mail provider I use for personal email had a spam >> check to consider dates 2020 and later to be ?from the future? and >> rejected mail. It took a few hours for them to fix it on 1/1, >> meanwhile, considerable mail was lost. Check your various spam >> checking processes. >> >> As my mail provider has told me they updated it to 2030, I now >> have a reminder set on my computer for 1-Dec-2029 to remind them >> to update it (should I still be using them 10 years from now). > > This is a Y.01K (Y-dot-01K? Y1K/100?) problem!
If only every 10 years. It bit them 1/1/16 as well (just a month after I switched to them once I reached the conclusion that having a reasonably priced high bandwidth connection meant moving to my cable provider’s “no servers” residential offering so farewell to running a full functional Postfix server at home - I still run Postfix but only for sending out mail originating from daemons and cron jobs I run to monitor our systems). Back then, they told me they took steps to make sure it didn’t happen again. Oops. The lesson for all of us is that spam checks that require periodic updating to prevent false positives need a good support network in place to make sure they’re not forgotten (either inadvertently or due to personnel changes). The mail provider I use is basically a small “mom and pop” (by their own description) operation. The pro is when there is a problem, I don’t have to waste time with first level support who usually don’t know as much as I do and are primarily there to deal with clueless users and that at a small operation, it’s much easier to get the problem to the person who can quickly fix it. The con is that there usually isn’t 24x7 support (I got lucky that my support request via a web form did get to someone right away but as befits the “mom and pop” description, the person who called me back was clearly also a mom who at the same time was trying to feed the kids - you just don’t get that entertainment on a support call to a mega-corp). Anyway, that’s probably enough digression from true Postfix issues (although FWIW, I can tell that my mail provider also uses Postfix). -- Larry Stone lston...@stonejongleux.com
