[Freemint-list] FreeMiNT list (again) blacklisted

[Jason Fergus]

Let me know if any help is needed, I run my own mail servers at home, and have been down the road of
all the funky things many times.

Is it running postfix, sendmail, qmail, exim?

On Sat, 2017-01-07 at 08:42 -0800, Rob M wrote:
> I don't touch the mail or network settings.. webmin shouldn't be changing anything on its own
> either.  Only thing I did recently was run the linux updates on the system. 
> 
> Hmmmm..  wonder if it's something in the openvz settings for the virtual server when it reboots??
> That's about the time we had a power outage and needed to reboot the system.
> 
> Miro,  unless Alan has concerns, go ahead and use root access to fix issues. I may own and host
> it. but it's a community project. I have no issue with having trusted members having root access.
> 
> Just email to let us know what's going on..
> 
> Rob
> 
> 
> On Jan 7, 2017 9:02 AM, "Alan Hourihane" <alanh at fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
> Rob is in charge of it, and I'm pretty sure it's because Rob keeps using webmin and it keeps on
> destroying stuff.
> I've fixed it again, but Rob, please look at what you are doing as this is getting pretty
> ridiculous.
> Alan.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Markus Fröschle <mfro at mubf.de>
> Date: 7 January 2017 at 19:32
> Subject: [Freemint-list] FreeMiNT list (again) blacklisted
> To: freemint-list at mail.atariforge.org
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> the last mail I received from the list was from 5th of December.
> Indeed, MiNT list was blacklisted again until a few minutes ago (see here: http://www.abuseat.org/
> lookup.cgi?ip=96.32.243.245). Not because it has been identified as spam source, but just because
> the MTA has been misconfigured according to RFCs:
> This IP address is HELO'ing as "localhost.localdomain" which violates the relevant standards
> (specifically: RFC5321). 
> As far as I understand, this was for the same reason than last time and several times before, i.e.
> the problem wasn't fixed.
> It appears our mintlist mail host identifies itself as localhost.localdomain instead of
> mail.atariforge.org on initial HELO to receiving MTAs when it attempts to deliver mail.
> If this doesn't get fixed, we'll never get reliable MiNT list message delivery since our mail host
> will be blacklisted again.
> Spamhaus offers detailed advice on how to repair the current misbehaviour here: http://www.abuseat
> .org/namingproblems.html
> Alan, I don't know if its you or anybody else in charge of the mail server config, but it needs to
> be fixed.
> Thank you!
> Markus
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