[ltp] OT: broken mail server setup for linux-thinkpad mailing list

Martin Steigerwald linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:26:56 +0200


Am Donnerstag, 6. Oktober 2011 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> This ML has a very good and well behaved sending relay.  If your setup
> is rejecting mail from it, and you actually intended it to just filter
> out spam with a very low false positive ratio, rest assured that your
> setup has big problems.
> 
> If you didn't lose a lot more good email than just those from this ML
> (which you can get from the archives), consider yourself very lucky.

I only remember three cases - including this one - where I had trouble and 
I am using this for quite a long time.

Anyway, the mailinglist admin already adapted the setup.

I will consider disabling HELO = MX checks once I understand (!) why they 
are just plain wrong as Florian wrote...

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