[nylug-talk] Email help [MAILER-DAEMON at yahoo.com: failure notice]

[Kevin Mark]

On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 02:57:26PM -0500, Chris Knadle wrote:
> On Saturday 08 December 2007, Kevin Mark wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:55:43AM -0500, Gary Mort wrote:
> > > Everything you need is in that message, if you go to
> > > www.rfc-ignorant.org there is an input box.  Enter the domain of the
> > > server trying to deliver the email and up pops the fact that it is
> > > listed as a spammer.
> > >
> > > http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/tools/lookup.php?domain=smtp101.vzn.mail.dcn.
> > >yahoo.com
> > >
> >
> > Ok. Will 'investigate' this. This only started to happen recently so I
> > was confused by its appearance.
> 
>    Perhaps they just recently added these two DNSRBL lists to the mail 
> server's configs.  That's not terribly surprising, as mail server configs 
> need tweaking relatively often.
That is possible as IIRC they did announce moving/changing the mail
setup. I will have to see if I can find the info.
> 
>    Something else that's mildly interesting: the MX record for 
> lists.debian.org points to a name that has an IP address in Germany.  

If you do a whois, the domain name is tied to some German Debian
developers.  So the mail server must be in Germany, thus the German IP.
-K
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