<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I’ve barked up that tree and got shat upon in the past. Don’t even go there (as the saying goes). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—jms</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2017, at 1:30 PM, George P. Burdell <<a href="mailto:info+lug@southeastlinuxfest.org" class="">info+lug@southeastlinuxfest.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I heartily encourage you to use Google Groups like UCLUG or ColaLUG uses. Then Google does all the work of dealing with this spam crap.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank" class="">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_3314259523522718601WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="">Most folks use TXT in lieu of SPF to do things like domainkeys or other spf like workarounds.
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<b class="">On Behalf Of </b>Jerald Sheets<br class="">
<b class="">Sent:</b> Friday, June 23, 2017 9:52 AM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br class="">
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<b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Bounce notifications<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">I believe I saw a blurb somewhere that gmail was going to start blocking anything without an SPF (or was it domain keys?) I dunno. Still important.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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On Jun 23, 2017, at 8:20 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey <<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank" class="">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>> wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="">The other day someone mentioned an spf record. On doing a dig just now I don’t see either spf or txt records for<span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://ale.org/" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple" class="">ale.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="">.</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="">The reverse for<span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:purple" class="">mail.ale.org</span></a><span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d" class="">IP
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<b class=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="">From:</span></b><span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class=""> </span></span><a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="">ale-bounces@ale.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="">
[</span><a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="">mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" class="">]<span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">O<wbr class="">n
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<b class="">Subject:</b><span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span>[ale] Bounce notifications</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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It seems the mailman instance for ALE is bouncing messages excessively (and filling my inbox with subscriber blocked notices - up to about 350 now).<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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Robert, please check the logs for any obvious issues over the past 24-48 hours. Also please post a blurb about the existence of this issue on the website. Doing so by cell phone screen and keyboard is not working for me.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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