OSGeo mail server on DNS Blacklist

[Jeff McKenna]

I noticed that on June 17th I stopped receiving all OSGeo mails from all OSGeo mailing lists (I must be on over 200 lists). Zero since June 17th.

(someone somewhere must be laughing at this though, as one of the only mails to still make it to me are from the geoserver-devel list, as it is of course through SourceForge, ha, someone must be laughing at how ironic that is for me)

I realize that this must be regarding my own email host/provider. I have checked the osgeo6 mail logs, and the logs are littered with entries similar to:

Jun 22 06:05:49 osgeo6 postfix/smtp[14162]: 887506143EA5: to=<jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com>, relay=mailroot3.namespro.ca[169.55.177.75]:25, delay=2.9, delays=0.1/1.8/0.43/0.58, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host mailroot3.namespro.ca[169.55.177.75] said: 554 The IP address of the sender (140.211.15.3) was found in a DNS blacklist database and was therefore refused. (in reply to RCPT TO command))

I have contacted my email provider, and will file a request to remove the blacklist ban on the OSGeo6 mail server (140.211.15.3).

I guess this ticket has not much to do with OSGeo-SAC, but maybe someday someone else out there will face something similar, and this ticket's archive may help someone.

I'll update this ticket when the DNS blacklist entry is removed.

Short story: I'm now an expert on recent GeoServer activity :)