<div dir="ltr">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><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 10:05 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jerald Sheets<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 23, 2017 9:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:jimkinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jimkinney@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Bounce notifications<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<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></u><u></u></p>
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On Jun 23, 2017, at 8:20 AM, Lightner, Jeffrey &lt;<a href="mailto:JLightner@dsservices.com" target="_blank">JLightner@dsservices.com</a>&gt; wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">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"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:purple">ale.org</span></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">The reverse for<span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://mail.ale.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:purple">mail.ale.org</span></a><span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1f497d">IP
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">From:</span></b><span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;"> </span></span><a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">ale-bounces@ale.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">
 [</span><a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:&quot;Tahoma&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;">]<span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span><b>O<wbr>n
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, June 23, 2017 6:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b><span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span>Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!<br>
<b>Subject:</b><span class="m_3314259523522718601apple-converted-space"> </span>[ale] Bounce notifications</span><u></u><u></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></u><u></u></p>
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Please be patient as this gets resolved. <u></u><u></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></u><u></u></p>
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I have seen past connectivity issues for the ALE server that were intermittent and network specific that appeared as router table failures (connect fail, connection to wrong system, nonexistent IP address, etc). Nothing like the scale I currently see. <u></u><u></u></p>
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See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>
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