I want better email SW. Can Evolution/Majordomo deliver?

Res res at ausics.net
Wed Jul 15 13:23:48 UTC 2009


On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, David Fox wrote:

> Anotther alternative is to set up a Google Group. I maintain a mailing
> list that way, and it's very easy to adminster, kick out the spam
> (before anyone else reads it), manage members' subscriptions, etc.

Only problem there is half of the ISP's i know of in more than just my 
country, block googlegroups, have they fixed uop their backscatter issue 
yet...

host -t mx googlegroups.com
googlegroups.com mail is handled by 10 alt2.gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
googlegroups.com mail is handled by 5 gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
googlegroups.com mail is handled by 10 alt1.gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.


telnet gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com 25
Trying 209.85.147.14...
Connected to gmr-smtp-in.l.google.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 gmr-mx.google.com ESMTP m37si1938388waf.6
helo roswell
250 gmr-mx.google.com at your service
mail from: <bounce at ausics.net>
250 2.1.0 OK m37si1938388waf.6
rcpt to: <drfhuerh435tjkfhdjkfhdjfdshfdkjd at googlegroups.com>
250 2.1.5 OK m37si1938388waf.6
data
354  Go ahead m37si1938388waf.6
blah
.
250 2.0.0 OK 1247663961 m37si1938388waf.6



nup, fantastic, clearly they STILL have NO clue, and the access reject 
entry we gave them over a year ago, remains completely justified, still.

(yes checking the mail server logs for this domain shows they tried to 
send a bounce DSN.)


-- 
Res

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