[Python-Dev] mail.python.org black listed ?!

M.-A. Lemburg mal@lemburg.com
Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:23:46 +0200


Andrew Kuchling wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2001 at 05:56:17PM +0200, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> >Since yesterday evening I haven't received any email from
> >mail.python.org. A look in my mail delivery log file showed
> >that sendmail is rejecting mails from mail.python.org
> >(63.102.49.29) with the following message:
> 
> See http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0107.1/0929.html .
> 
> Short explanation: ORBS will, one eleventh of the time, report that any IP
> address is an open relay.
> 
> Fix: your sysadmins have to stop using ORBS and switch to some other
> open relay detection service.

Thanks for the pointer. I've switched off ORBS... and just
saw that missed the nice Unicode thread yesterday ;-(

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