Hi Clive, > no mail from the LUG since Tims 'Amazon v Morrell' mail.
The LUG machine running Mailman dislikes 92.205.12.157's behaviour when connecting to port 25, SMTP, to hand over emails to you. Here's the current DNS settings for posterity. $ dig +short cewland.uk. mx 0 mail.cewland.uk. $ dig +short mail.cewland.uk. a 92.205.12.157 $ host 92.205.12.157 157.12.205.92.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer 157.12.205.92.host.secureserver.net. $ Exim on behalf of Mailman logs that ‘Remote host closed connection in response to initial connection’. I see this myself with ‘nc 92.205.12.157 25’. Sometimes 92.205.12.157 closes the connection immediately. Sometimes it prints the expected SMTP greeting but I'm finding it takes twenty seconds before printing that. $ time nc 92.205.12.157 25 <<<quit 220-sxb1plzcpnl490284.prod.sxb1.secureserver.net ESMTP Exim 4.95 #2 Tue, 20 Jun 2023 02:44:23 -0700 220-We do not authorize the use of this system to transport unsolicited, 220 and/or bulk e-mail. 221 sxb1plzcpnl490284.prod.sxb1.secureserver.net closing connection → real 0m20.301s user 0m0.011s sys 0m0.004s $ This is a long time and Exim doesn't bother waiting around. It's so consistently twenty seconds that I don't think it's because the server is heavily loaded but rather an ‘anti-spam’ method. I suggest contacting the ISP to say incoming SMTP connections from mailman.lug.org.uk to 92.205.12.157 are seeing this twenty-second delay before the SMTP greeting and it's causing Exim to log ‘Remote host closed connection in response to initial connection’. mailman.lug.org.uk has address 85.119.83.42 mailman.lug.org.uk has IPv6 address 2001:ba8:1f1:f090::2 > Not sure that I've managed to get 're-enlisted' to /receive/ mail from > the LUG. I've just checked. You are subscribed to the list. Given I haven't got a recent ‘new subscriber’ email then I think you already were. This is also backed up by Mailman letting your posts through to the list as it wouldn't do that for non-subscribers. I've just ticked the ‘Ack’ box on your subscription page, which you can also control yourself, which should make Mailman send just you an acknowledgement of each email as you send it to the list. Of course, you won't get them at the moment. so keep an eye on the web's archive of list postings. -- Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-07-04 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk