On 2015-12-13 20:01:35 GMT, Brian <ad44 <at> cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 13 Dec 2015 at 18:57:31 +0000, Steve Kleene wrote:
>
> > > On Sunday 13 December 2015 17:18:32 Steve Kleene wrote:
> > > > My address (skdeb <at> syrano.acb.uc.edu) has been unsubscribed from the
> > > > debian-user mailing list. I understand why. I took the address
down for a
> > > > few days for reasons that are now irrelevant (but can be related if
anyone
> > > > cares). Because mails from lists.debian.org were bouncing, they
> > > > unsubscribed me. A note from listmaster <at> lists.debian.org on
Dec 8 notified
> > > > me of this and said, "You are welcome to contact us". I wrote to that
> > > > address twice (Dec 8 and 9). The mails were not returned to me; I have
> > > > received no response; and I'm still unsubscribed.
> > > >
> > > > Do any of you know of another administrator or ombudsman who might
actually
> > > > respond? Thanks.
> >
> > On Sun Dec 13 12:29:31 2015, Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz <at> gmail.com> replied:
> >
> > > Why not just resubscribe - much simpler.
> >
> > Thanks, but that's a whole can of worms I had hoped (in vain) not to reopen.
> > Last month I did a thread ("problem e-mailing debian groups") on that
and was
> > unable to find a solution. My e-mails to debian-user <at>
lists.debian.org and
> > debian-admin <at> lists.debian.org DO bounce, apparently because my employer
> > mishandles sender callback verification. (Having said that, I don't
> > understand why no one but lists.debian.org bounces my e-mails.) My employer
> > only wants to support Microsoft Outlook or Exchange and wishes I didn't
run a
> > mail server at all. So I'm on my own.
>
> Would you please be clearer here as to your setup.
>
> You are running a mail server anad are using it to send mail.
>
> Does this mail
>
> a) go through one of your employer's mail servers
>
> or
>
> b) do you send mails directly ?
I am running mailto/sendmail from the command line, configured locally by
/etc/sendmail/sendmail.cf. This file includes:
DSsmtp.uc.edu
This sets my employer's server smtp.uc.edu as SMART_HOST. I did not route
through that server until 2006. At that point an organization across the
street began refusing emails because my IP was seen as dynamic. I had to
route through smtp.uc.edu to get around that. I haven't tried lately to go
back to the pre-2006 system. I do have one machine with a fixed IP. On my
desk machine I masquerade to the fixed IP, but apparently e-mails from the
desk machine were detected as dynamic IP before the header was even checked.
Thanks for the reply.
