[Elecraft] being rejected

Julia Tuttle julia at juliatuttle.net
Fri Mar 12 21:38:16 EST 2021


Hi Ned,

Sorry about that -- the short answer is:

1. Go here http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft and subscribe.
2. You'll get list messages in your regular email inbox.
3. You can post or reply by emailing elecraft at mailman.qth.net.

73,

Julie



On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 9:31 PM Ned Mountain <ned.mountain at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Julia, but this is all Greek to me.  I have used this Mindspring
> account for 15+ years and have in the past had no trouble the posts.  I
> guess I will give up and go away.
>
>
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
>
>
> Ned
>
> WC4X
>
>
>
> *From:* Julia Tuttle [mailto:julia at juliatuttle.net]
> *Sent:* Friday, March 12, 2021 9:24 PM
> *To:* Ned Mountain
> *Cc:* Elecraft
> *Subject:* Re: [Elecraft] being rejected
>
>
>
> Alright, so:
>
>
>
> Nabble[1] is trying to send mail from your Mindspring address to
> mailman.qth.net.
>
>
>
> Mindspring has an SPF record, which lists which servers are allowed to
> send outgoing messages from mindspring.com. Generally this lists
> Mindspring's email servers, and messages sent from anyone else are assumed
> to be spam. This is good; it's a step towards preventing junk and forged
> email.
>
>
>
> mailman.qth.net uses spamexperts for spam filtering[2], and spamexperts'
> server is rejecting your message because Nabble's outgoing mail server
> isn't one of Mingspring's allowed servers. This is good; Nabble could well
> be a spammer, or someone could be using Nabble to forge messages from
> Mindspring's customers.
>
>
>
> The way to fix this is to email the list directly (
> elecraft at mailman.qth.net) from your Mindspring account, using their
> webmail or a client pointed at their SMTP server.
>
>
>
> [1] I found this by looking up the reverse DNS for 162.253.133.85, which
> is n2.nabble.com.
>
> [2] I found this by looking up the MX record for mailman.qth.net, which
> is mx.spamexperts.com (plus a couple of fallback servers).
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 8:45 PM Ned Mountain <ned.mountain at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
>
> <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>: host mx.spamexperts.com[38.89.254.156] said:
> 550
>
>     162.253.133.85 is not allowed to send mail from mindspring.com. Please
> see
>
>     the SPF record, with scope mfrom, identity ned.mountain at mindspring.com
> ,
> and
>
>     ip 162.253.133.85 (in reply to end of DATA command)
>
>
>
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