Re: Can't send emails to this list via gmane?

[Rainer M Krug]

wgreenhouse@riseup.net (W. Greenhouse) writes:

> Hi Rainer,
>
> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Nothing - the message with the following headers:
>>
>> From: Rainer M Krug <R.M.Krug@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Displaying all mail
>> Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user
>> Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 20:57:31 +0100 (19 hours, 23 minutes, 20 seconds ago)
>> Fcc: /home/rkrug/Maildir/sent
>>
>> is copied into the nnfolder+archive.sent.2013-03 but does not go
>> through.
>>
>>> after sending an NNTP message for the first time to a particular Gmane
>>> newsgroup, you get a confirmation mail at the address you specified in
>>> "From:" which must be a valid email address.  You must reply to that
>>
>> I did not receive any mail, and I can post to to the mailing from
>> thunderbird so I assume that I should be able from gnus as well.
>
> My hypothesis, then, is that Gmane does try to send you the confirmation
> message but that this ends up in your Gmail spam folder.  Did you check
> there?

Yes - I checked there just now and nothing was in there. In addition, I
assume that the email would have been send via my (only) smtp account
which is gmail, and the mail should have been in the "Send Items" -
nothing there (checked via the web interface as well).

>
>> Same as above - I do not assume that I am blocked when using gnus but
>> not thunderbird.
>
> To clarify, are you posting directly to the mailing list with
> Thunderbird, or to Gmane?  

via gmane on thunderbird.

> Being blocked from Gmane and blocked from the
> "upstream" mailing list are not the same thing; that's completely
> different machines, with different administrators, and potentially
> different lists of IPs suspected of spam.

Sure - two different receivers.

>
> Your description of the order of events, though, makes it sound like the
> message was delivered to Gmane but the required confirmation email was
> mislaid somehow.

I thought the same - but I did not see any.

Any suggestions how I can check this?

Rainer

>
> Best,
> Will

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