[reportlab-users] Mailinglist problem

[Volker Haas]

Let's see if this mail gets through ;)


Robin Becker wrote:

> ..........

>>

>> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

>>

>> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

>>

>>     reportlab-users at reportlab.com

>>

>> Technical details of permanent failure: Message rejected. Please 

>> visit http://www.google.com/mail/help/bulk_mail.html to review our 

>> Bulk Email Senders Guidelines.

>>

>>

>> This seems somewhat strange since I have successfully posted to the 

>> mailinglist in the past. Could this be a configuration issue on your 

>> side? I checked the link above but did't find anything useful. 

>> Furthermore the only recipient of my mail was the reportlab 

>> mailinglist - which should not really qualify as a bulk mail.

>>

>> I would be happy if somebody could check whats going wrong, maybe 

>> other people have the same problem.

> .......

> Hi Volker,

>

> luckily we don't actually host the list it's provided by an old 

> supplier of ours at two.pairlist.net; I checked and you are subscribed 

> both as volker.haas at brainbot.com and pediapress.com

>

> For what it's worth we are using google for mail support. So the mx 

> for reportlab.com is directed to google mail and we have a group setup 

> for the user

>

> reportlab-users at reportlab.com

>

> so far as I can tell that 'group' has only one user in our system ie

>

>     reportlab-users at two.pairlist.net

>

> which is the real address of the list. You can certainly email there 

> and see if that gets through.

>

> I'm not sure if the way we've set this up is the best way, but 

> certainly others are using this list and it seems to work.

>

> If anyone else knows what Volker's error message really means can they 

> say? I have seen this in the past with our lists when I have managed 

> to mis-configure a dns or ip address somewhere.


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