[Toybox] Emails go nowhere

[Rob Landley]

On 3/4/20 5:08 AM, Denys Nykula wrote:
> 4 March 2020, 02:50:05 "Rob Landley" <rob at landley.net>:
>> You're getting landley.net emails from_me_, but not dreamhost's own servers
> 
> No, according to the log, mailing list letters come from 64.90.62.195, which
> is dreamhost. With a header, it asks recipient's server to display the letter as
> though it comes from your domain. Following RFC 7208, recipient looks up your
> domain records and checks if you allow the server from that network prefix to
> send letters as you.

That RFC came out in 2014, my DNS last moved in... looks like 2008? This list
has been there since 2011.

So your mail server implemented a new thing that doesn't work with the existing
list, and this is my problem. Got it.

I'll throw it on the todo heap...

> Your domain has no matching record, so a recipient's host complying to the
> standard

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149

> "SHOULD use an SMTP reply code of 550" to reject it as "not authorized
> to use the domain in the given identity". The RFC about SPF was released 6 years
> ago, mail providers allowed a grace term waiting for people to add the records,
> which seems over.

I'm sorry you can no longer receive mail from the list. You can still read the
web archive.

> But please ask dreamhost support for which precise records you should add. I
> can't blindly suggest correct records without access to your account, and I
> think an MX record is also needed (lists.landley.net isn't the same as
> landley.net).

This worked for many years. Your server changed. My setup is now no longer good
enough for you, and somehow this is my problem?

I'll blog about what I'm doing with toybox more then. I'm sorry your server lost
the ability to receive email, but I can't strongly bring myself to care about it.

Rob