Why my mailing list membership (this list) was disabled?

Why my mailing list membership (this list) was disabled?

[Akib Azmain Turja]

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> Your membership in the mailing list help-gnu-emacs has been disabled
> due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
> 15-Jan-2023.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
> you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 2 more reminders like
> this before your membership in the list is deleted.

What does this mean?

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Re: Why my mailing list membership (this list) was disabled?

[Ruijie Yu via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:

> [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]]
>
>> Your membership in the mailing list help-gnu-emacs has been disabled
>> due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
>> 15-Jan-2023.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
>> you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 2 more reminders like
>> this before your membership in the list is deleted.
>
> What does this mean?

A bounce means that the ML has failed an attempt at delivering a mail to
your address.  Probably your email server had problems previously and
wasn't able to accept emails for an extended period of time.  I was in
the same boat a few months ago and restarting my mail service was
sufficient for me.

Best,


RY

Re: Why my mailing list membership (this list) was disabled?

[Jean Louis]

* Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> [2023-01-22 20:42]:
> > Your membership in the mailing list help-gnu-emacs has been disabled
> > due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
> > 15-Jan-2023.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
> > you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 2 more reminders like
> > this before your membership in the list is deleted.
> 
> What does this mean?

It means that mailing list can't handle well SPF records with: "-all"
because:

disroot.org.            3600    IN      TXT     "v=spf1 a mx -all"

Because domain disroot.org does not authorize other domains but mx
server and a record to send e-mails, and then your server rejects
e-mail from help-gnu-emacs, creating a bounce, as mailing list has to
rewrite your e-mail and forward it from their server but with your
e-mail address in From:

In my opinion, that may be and should be solved server side, by
rewriting of e-mail headers, as From: may come from GNU server, while
Reply-To: may be injected, something like that.


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Jean

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