Sory, john...
This time it is not sympa, it is our mailserver, DNS and god knows what
else not playing nice, and believe me I'm quite pissed of myself
too. Charles has promised that at least the DNS problem should be solved
"soon", but there is basically nothing I can do at the moment :-(
I really do not understand it: sympa picks up the mail, gives it to
postfix, and postfix is supposed to deliver it.
This receipt:
# We will not tolerate any X-Loop-s!
:0:
* X-Loop:.*\@(linux\-mandrake|mandrakesoft)\.com
mail/Xloop
should strike in case of the loops, and there is no chance of
sympa-caused dupes because its queue is empty. (Hm, maybe I'm wrong on
this one... But i have never seen much more than 2-3 messages in the queue
since i switched to a new server, so if sympa dies it should at least not
cause MANY dupes.)
In short, I do not understand what is going on, and prefere to hack on
mandrakeforum.com at the moment than kill myself looking at mailserver
gone mad. When Charles tells me that our DNS entry is OK, I'll look at it
again.
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I wrote the text above yesterday. Today, mailserver seams to be working
very nicely for the first time since we made a switch. But DNS is still
troublesome:
...
Aug 18 03:55:33 yavin
postfix/smtp[10490]: D9E111CE6E: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
relay=tdwarf.arc.nasa.gov[128.102.217.54], delay=28725, status=deferred
(host tdwarf.arc.nasa.gov[128.102.217.54] said: 450 Client host
rejected: cannot find your hostname, [63.209.80.226])
...
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In the meantime, I have (partially) hacked in the e-mail notification for
the "mandrakeforum.com". So far, following works:
1) answers to your own posts are forwarded to you
2) mailing list where all forum-topics go ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Forum is still experimental, buggy, and and its machine can not handle
much load, but it is much more fun than mailing lists, i like working on
it, and it does not cause any mail-loops or bounces. :-b
cu
Denis
:~>On Thu, 17 Aug 2000, you wrote:
:~>> I've noticed the same thing. I checked out www.mandrax.org and it says
:~>> Welcome to Linux-Mandrake Website
:~>> but goes into a refresh loop
:~>>
:~>And I keep getting bounce messages from a UK server stating first
:~>that "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" doesn't exist and now that
:~>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" doesn't exist! *sigh*
:~>
:~>I hate to say this, 'cause I think Denis is a nice guy and is trying
:~>really hard, but I can't stand the dupe loops, so I think I'm gonna
:~>sign back off this list!
:~>
:~>Denis, would you be kind enough to let me know when you've got the
:~>bounce messages and dupe messages problem fixed? I get MORE than
:~>enough mail here w/o getting dupes! :-(
:~>
:~>Thanks... and maybe I'll try Mandrake 7.2 (or whatever the next
:~>version is! <G>) when it comes out.... now that y'all have a
:~>TOTALLY separate release version under your belts. :-)
:~> John
:~>
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Mandrakesoft ||| e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The mailserver is on strike. It wants better working conditions,
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