[melbourne-pug] Delayed posting to this forum (was: python GIS volunteers?)

[Angus Gratton]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 09:40:39AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Well, that was unexpected. Why the twenty-day-delayed post of that
> message? I am not aware of anything I did to cause that.

Hi Ben,

That's kinda strange. The headers show your mail got held for 19 days at
jigong.madmonks.org, before moving on to the right places:

Received: from localhost (HELO mail.python.org) (127.0.0.1)
        by albatross.python.org with SMTP; 22 Feb 2014 11:51:14 +0100
Received: from jigong.madmonks.org (unknown [125.214.77.42])
        by mail.python.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
        for <melbourne-pug at python.org>; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:51:13 +0100 (CET)
Received: from jigong.madmonks.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by jigong.madmonks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE65DC02A;
        Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:43:24 +1100 (EST)
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on
        vmx15867.hosting24.com.au
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham
        version=3.3.2
Received: by jigong.madmonks.org (Postfix, from userid 1002)
        id EF14BDC027; Mon,  3 Feb 2014 21:16:35 +1100 (EST)Received: from localhost (HELO mail.python.org) (127.0.0.1)
        by albatross.python.org with SMTP; 22 Feb 2014 11:51:14 +0100
Received: from jigong.madmonks.org (unknown [125.214.77.42])
        by mail.python.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
        for <melbourne-pug at python.org>; Sat, 22 Feb 2014 11:51:13 +0100 (CET)
Received: from jigong.madmonks.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
        by jigong.madmonks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE65DC02A;
        Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:43:24 +1100 (EST)
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on
        vmx15867.hosting24.com.au
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham
        version=3.3.2
Received: by jigong.madmonks.org (Postfix, from userid 1002)
        id EF14BDC027; Mon,  3 Feb 2014 21:16:35 +1100 (EST)

Is jigong you? The reverse lookup for jigong points back to the
hosting24 domain name (also mentioned in the same headers), which
seems to be the hostname in the headers for some of your other posts
to the list (like the second email.)

Grepping my maildir, only the 20-days-delayed email has jigong in the
headers.

So I'm guessing possibly the mail.python.org server rejected/held it
as the sender hostname (jigong) didn't match the IP reverse DNS
(hosting24)? Or some other mailserver config shenanigans?


- Angus

PS I confess to finding the inner workings of email kind of
fascinating, probably because I've never had to work with mailservers
for an extended period of time.

PPS I'm also procrastinating a job I don't want to do. Hard to tell?
;)