Re: Mail not being received from bugzilla.gnome.org

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Hi,

cc'ing gnome-infrastructure: that's the right mailing list for this
topic.

Vincent

Le mardi 28 septembre 2010, à 10:17 -0400, Paul Smith a écrit :
> The SMTP MTA configuration on the bugzilla.gnome.org server is
> incorrectly configured, such that various other MTAs will not accept
> mail from it.  One such "other MTA" is the one associated with my
> bugzilla account, eggs.gnu.org (the FSF's mail server).  As such, I'm
> not getting any email about any of my Bugzilla bugs from
> bugzilla.gnome.org... this has caused me to miss lots of important
> updates and not respond in a timely fashion to requests for information,
> etc.
> 
> There was a bug filed about this a few months ago (I filed one before
> that but this one, from David Woodhouse, actually contains useful
> information, unlike my bug :-)):
> 
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621198
> 
> This shows that the bugzilla.gnome.org MTA is misconfigured and not
> behaving properly.
> 
> However this bug has been closed as RESOLVED WONTFIX without much
> comment except:
> 
> > I do not see an easy way on: http://www.postfix.org/access.5.html (reject
> > except for <> and send it in that case to /dev/null). I do of course know of a
> > way, but that adds a lot of extra stuff to the configuration for IMO little
> > benefit.
> 
> The benefit, of course, is that people who report bugs to bugzilla and
> whose MTAs attempt to use address verification to reduce spam will be
> able to receive email updates and notifications about their bugs, unlike
> today.
> 
> I suppose I'm biased, but that seems like more than a little benefit.
> 
> What is the right way to move forward with this and get a resolution
> that enables all bugzilla.gnome.org email to be properly delivered?
> 
> Cheers!
> 
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