Hi. On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > Is this happening to anyone else?
Not yet. > Is there anything I can do to stop it, other than simply > re-subscribing every time I post? It says there plain and clear: > > When in doubt, ... or send mail to "postmaster". Lists' postmasters were very helpful in pointing at errors in my setup when I had the problems with the list in the past. Mail them, ask for help. The most probable cause of your troubles - you do not have DMARC policy published, which means the whole Internet could send bounces to the list on your behalf. SPF policy that you have published is not enough. > What is this "vps268904.ovh.net", "whois ovh.net" will tell you all you need to know about it, specifically - an abuse e-mail. Consider sending an e-mail there as well. Long story short - that host belongs to OVH, one of the Europe largest hosting provider, and it's withing their power to excommunicate one of their clients. > why is it sending messages with the subject "**stop**", Because it's host owner who misconfigured that sorry excuse for an MTA called "Kerio Connect", so it's sending bounces. > why do no such messages appear in the web archive of debian-user, Because the list archive does not store bounces. > and why are these messages causing me to become unsubscribed? This e-mail is the consequence, not the reason of it. After all, it says "we have already unsubscribed", so it was some other e-mail that got you into this trouble. > My best guess is that someone is spamming debian-user, the messages are > being sent to everyone, my local MTA's spam filters are blocking them, > and the mailing list is getting mad at me for blocking the spam that it's > sending to me. Silently discarding spam was always OK. Replying to the spammer via list was not and is not. Bouncing spammer e-mail (which could happen due to MTA misconfiguration on your part) will get you removed from the list. Reco
