Re: About "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" when trying to respond to debbugs issues

[Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>]

Hi Zephir,

On 19 November 2024 11:27:51 UTC, Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@posteo.de> wrote:
>I am guessing that debbugs does not support TLS

Somewhat to my surprise, this is indeed the case!

GNU Debbugs uses/is its own MX without STARTTLS support.  Other gnu.org {,sub}domains such as this list use eggs.gnu.org, which supports TLS just fine.

We (Guix) aren't responsible for any of the debbugs infra so it's not something we can change directly.  One could try asking <owner at debbugs dot gnu dot org> or, if that fails, <sysadmin at gnu dot org>.

> and that I have somewhere configured to always send via TLS and then posteo tells me, that the target mail server does not support it.
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>Correct?
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>Or is it the Posteo server that demands TLS and debbugs does not offer it?

Well, both really.  You've asked (or defaulted) Posteo to deliver only over TLS.  See <https://posteo.de/en/help/activating-tls-sending-guarantee>.

I've never myself used Posteo, so I hope that's the cause.


Kind regards,

T G-R

Sent on the go.  Excuse or enjoy my brevity.