Hi Ted, On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 22:17 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:46:18PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > I don't think it has anything to do with linux-iscsi.org. > > Possibly Nicholas' e-mail provider is not hosted in the US, meaning e-mail > > sent through it can not be logged and examined by a certain US government > > agency. > > Hardly. mail.linux-iscsi.org is hosted by Rackspace, which is most > certainly in the US. There may be spammers using some of Rackspace > subnets, which is much more likely to have something to be the issue. > > I had a similar issue with thunk.org, which is hosted by Linode. In > my case, part of the problem was that I was that I moved my host to a > different Linode datacenter (from Dallas to Atlanta), and I forgot to > update my SPF record, so e-mails with an SMTP envelope address of > [email protected] were getting a soft-fail. (And e-mails with an SMTP > return address of [email protected] but sent from imap.thunk.org were > always getting a soft-fail, which would tend to increase the > likelihood that if the e-mail tripped other hueristics, would cause it > to be considered spam.) > > Fixing my SPF record, and enabling DKIM (with a DKIM key published for > thunk.org in DNS, and making sure that I always used an SMTP envelope > return address of [email protected], even if the RFC 822 from address > stated [email protected]) fixed the spam false positive issues for me. > > (Hint: installing and configuring OpenDKIM really isn't all that hard. > I did it in less than an hour.)
<nod>, thanks for the additional information. Enabling DKIM now, and just waiting for the TXT records to update to verify. --nab -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
