Re: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender

[John W. Eaton]

On 7/15/20 6:31 AM, Markus Mützel wrote:
> Am 15. Juli 2020 um 11:58 Uhr schrieb "John W. Eaton":
> > On 7/11/20 4:28 AM, Markus Mützel wrote:
> >
> > > @jwe: Are you managing the dreamhost account?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > Do you think they could help setting up the email forward of 
> > > maintainers@octave.org to octave-maintainers@gnu.org correctly?
> > > At the moment gnu.org rejects some of the messages because the sending domain 
> > > and the IP of the dreamhost server mismatch (see above).
> >
> > I'm not sure what to ask them to do.
> >
> > I have many forwards for each list on the server (not sure that all are
> > needed, but I added them to be complete since all of these are used by
> > mailmain):
> >
> >     octave-maintainers@octave.org  octave-maintainers@gnu.org   
> >     octave-maintainers-admin@octave.org  octave-maintainers-admin@gnu.org
> >     octave-maintainers-bounces@octave.org  octave-maintainers-bounces@gnu.org
> >     octave-maintainers-confirm@octave.org  octave-maintainers-confirm@gnu.org
> >     octave-maintainers-join@octave.org  octave-maintainers-join@gnu.org
> >     octave-maintainers-leave@octave.org  octave-maintainers-leave@gnu.org
> >     octave-maintainers-owner@octave.org  octave-maintainers-owner@gnu.org
> >     octave-maintainers-request@octave.org  octave-maintainers-request@gnu.org
> >     octave-maintainers-subscribe@octave.org
> > octave-maintainers-subscribe@gnu.org
> >     octave-maintainers-unsubscribe@octave.org
> > octave-maintainers-unsubscribe@gnu.org
>
> To be honest, I thought that the mail server on octave.org was managed by 
> dreamhost. But from what you've written, I gather that you manage mailman on 
> that server yourself?

The mailman mailing list manager runs on a gnu.org system.  There is 
also an smtp mail server running on dreamhost that handles the mail for 
the octave.org domain.  It forwards the mail sent to @octave.org 
addresses that are used for the mailing lists (like those shown above) 
to the @gnu.org addresses where mailmain processes the list mail.

> If that isn't possible, maybe we could also ask gnu.org to whitelist the IP of 
> the mailserver on octave.org.

I will ask about that.

jwe