Hi, i am in contact with David Wright <[email protected]> whose mails are neither delivered nor archived by the server of [email protected] since end of august 2025.
On 5 Oct 2025 i got a mail from him, Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2025 14:23:55 -0500 Subject: Re: checksums for ISOs of early Debian releases which was addressed To: [email protected] Cc: Thomas Schmitt <[email protected]> He predicted correctly: > P.S. Don't expect this post to appear in debian-user; > I appear to be blocked at present. And indeed there are no mails from him in the archives since Aug 21 2025: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/08/msg00781.html Today i got a more detailed description of the failed attempts: > 2025-08-28 through 2025-09-01 to debian-user: > 4 posts; one was a repeat because it didn't show up, yet I saw > the Bcc had arrived. > 2025-09-01 to listmaster: > Included the timestamps and Message-IDs of my last success and > first failure to post on debian-user. > 2025-09-01 to the senders of the three posts above: > One got a response here: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2025/09/msg00058.html > Another got a terse reply; the third was a no-response. > 2025-09-02 to debian-user and the sender: > 2025-09-06 to debian-user and the sender: > 2025-09-19 to debian-user and the sender: > 2025-10-02 to debian-user and the sender: After these attempts he contacted listmaster again plus Andrew M.A. Cater. I understand that he got no replies. So possibly his mails did not reach them. > 2025-10-05 to debian-user and the sender: > Three posts, one of which is the email you received. > 2025-10-06 to listmaster: > Sent a reminder of my previous email, and included a screenshot > of the successful Bcc of one of yesterday's posts. Of course, > it's possible for that to result in its being filtered out. > 2025-10-14 to [email protected] and [email protected]: > Sent this to Andy's posting address, as it's possible that > debian.org is entirely inaccessible to me; this was also > a no-response. Two days ago he got confirmation from his email provider, that an attempt reached the list server: > 2025-10-19 to debian-user and the sender: > After seeing the Bcc of this post arrive, I opened a ticket with > my email hosting service, submitting the email and the log of mutt > (at debug level 5) sending the email to their SMTP server. > They have sent back a screenshot of their system's successful > delivery of this post to [email protected], queued under > the id 77EC32057E about 17 minutes later. This string would be > contained in the resulting list post were it successful, though > technically I can only infer that the queue id is bendel's in the > chain: cloud225.thundercloud.uk (my email service's host) → > mailclean11.thundermail.uk (outgoing spam filter service) → > relay.mailchannels.net (multiple hosts relaying service) → > bendel.debian.org (the list). Bendel is the only host that issues > an id with ten hex digits, judging from my past posts and others' > more recent ones. So that string is something I would expect the > listmaster to observe in the logs when my email was delivered to > bendel.debian.org (2025-10-19 17:50 UTC). I had offered him to serve as proxy in this issue. > > Shall i ask on the list on your behalf what's going on ? > Yes, please. Perhaps some debian-user list members, particularly > those with @debian.org in their email address, would be able to help, > as they might have some privileged access at the domain. But > forwarding this email to [email protected] might elicit > some explanation of what's blocking my posts, how it happened, and > why no notification. > [anything here can be forwarded/posted/etc] So now, with my proxy hat on, i ask for ideas about what is happening and how to work around. (It seems not necessary to Cc: David Wright <[email protected]> in replies to this mail, but i do so just to be sure.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
