Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262724AbVAKBOJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:14:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262776AbVAKBJa (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:09:30 -0500 Received: from a26.t1.student.liu.se ([130.236.221.26]:54986 "EHLO mail.drzeus.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262644AbVAKBDu (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:03:50 -0500 Message-ID: <41E325F5.60901@drzeus.cx> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 02:03:49 +0100 From: Pierre Ossman User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041127) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: davids@webmaster.com CC: Adrian Bunk , LKML Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] remove SPF-using wbsd lists from MAINTAINERS References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 985 Lines: 28 David Schwartz wrote: > > From reading this thread, it's not clear to me which of two possible > situations we are in: > > 1) The mail server is rejecting perfectly valid email based upon it > requiring SPF or some similar problem with that mail server. > > 2) The mail server is rejecting email because SPF is misconfigured on the > other end. > Since it's a bit off-topic for LKML it's being discussed off-list. The problem was with the DNS servers. Since the mail server could not determine SPF status for the domain it returned a temporary error (hoping that the DNS problem would get resolved). So the situation is more towards 1). The mail is valid, but there is a DNS (or firewall) misconfigured somewhere. Rgds Pierre - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/