Passing this comment back. I vaguely recall that whichever kind soul is underwriting the hosting of BALUG's presence at Dreamhost (Michael Hubbard?) claimed that it's not possible to configure acceptance of mail at the RFC-mandated postmaster@balug.org and abuse@balug.org mailboxes, and delivery to somewhere useful.[1]
Dave Anderson (below) claims that this is not the case, that the Dreamhost customer merely needs to configure that functionality, to make it happen.
It would be greatly to BALUG's advantage, were that to be done. (Hint, hint.)
Thanks in advance. ;->
[1] And yes, I'd be fine with that mail getting directed to rick@linuxmafia.com, if that's deemed desirable. Just let me know, if so.
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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Anderson dave@daveanderson.com To: SMOFS Mailing list smofs@lists.sflovers.org Reply-To: SMOFS Mailing list smofs@lists.sflovers.org Subject: Re: [smofs] Hosting Recommendations
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Rick Moen wrote:
If you do lookup of "balug.org" at http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ , you find that it's listed in their "postmaster" DNS blocklist. This is because BALUG's domain is hosted at Dreamhost, and Dreamhost doesn't permit acceptance of mail addressed to postmaster@balug.org [1]. This appears to be typical of Dreamhost: They don't honour RFC-mandated mailboxes, resulting in (some of) their customers' domains ending up in DNS blocklists.
Something's funny here. Dreamhost certainly doesn't automatically do something useful with email to postmaster@<hosted.domain>, but it definitely allows the customer to set it up. I just tried this with a domain we're testing there, and when I set postmaster as a forward-only alias to another account mail to it was received properly.
Dave
Rick:
thanks very much forwarded this on.
Michael & Jim:
I assume that one of you guys is on this since its more up your alley. Don't think there is much that I can do to help with mail admin but happy to lobby for more BALUG space in Untangle's datacenter if you want to move away from dreamhost.
-Andrew
Thanks, ... added on my(/our) BALUG "to do" list.
Should be pretty doable and not very hard (even on DreamHost).
I think last time it came up was before I had any access sufficient to potentially fix it.
Quoting Rick Moen rick@linuxmafia.com:
Passing this comment back. I vaguely recall that whichever kind soul is underwriting the hosting of BALUG's presence at Dreamhost (Michael Hubbard?) claimed that it's not possible to configure acceptance of mail at the RFC-mandated postmaster@balug.org and abuse@balug.org mailboxes, and delivery to somewhere useful.[1]
Dave Anderson (below) claims that this is not the case, that the Dreamhost customer merely needs to configure that functionality, to make it happen.
It would be greatly to BALUG's advantage, were that to be done. (Hint, hint.)
Thanks in advance. ;->
[1] And yes, I'd be fine with that mail getting directed to rick@linuxmafia.com, if that's deemed desirable. Just let me know, if so.
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Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:50:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Anderson dave@daveanderson.com To: SMOFS Mailing list smofs@lists.sflovers.org Reply-To: SMOFS Mailing list smofs@lists.sflovers.org Subject: Re: [smofs] Hosting Recommendations
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Rick Moen wrote:
If you do lookup of "balug.org" at http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/ , you find that it's listed in their "postmaster" DNS blocklist. This is because BALUG's domain is hosted at Dreamhost, and Dreamhost doesn't permit acceptance of mail addressed to postmaster@balug.org [1]. This appears to be typical of Dreamhost: They don't honour RFC-mandated mailboxes, resulting in (some of) their customers' domains ending up in DNS blocklists.
Something's funny here. Dreamhost certainly doesn't automatically do something useful with email to postmaster@<hosted.domain>, but it definitely allows the customer to set it up. I just tried this with a domain we're testing there, and when I set postmaster as a forward-only alias to another account mail to it was received properly.
Dave
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