[sf-lug] problem with the longer messages resolved ... do they not reach the main list they do not reach the test list ...

[Bobbie Sellers]

On 4/25/20 6:36 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):
>
>> Yes they were.  The final change was taking out the live url for
>> Distrowatch.com.
> Interesting.  (Albeit, I'm not really sure what 'live URL' means in this
> context, and how it differs from any other URL.)
>
> FWIW, linuxmafia.com's SMTP software (Exim4) and mailing list software
> (GNU Mailman) has no heuristics that make it refuse or discard arriving
> mail on account of URLs in the body text _per se_ -- except for some
> antispam heuristics applied by SpamAssassin (spamd) in measuring the
> arriving mail's 'spamicity' prior to Exim4 accepting or rejecting
> delivery.
>
> However, note that, whenever linuxmafia.com rejects a piece of arriving
> SMTP mail on grounds of high estimated spamicity, that event and the
> reasoning behind it get logged in /var/log/exim4/rejectlog .  Which is
> of course one of the places I looked when you kindly provided me
> timestamps of 'lost' mail.  (And there was no sign there or in the other
> Exim4 logs of any attempt at delivery.)
>
>
>> so i don't know what is going on but I have another data point there
>> for the DSLExtreme Tech support
>> when they finally get back to me.
> I'm sure you're on top of this, but FWIW I hope/expect you did the same
> thing with them as you did with me, providing specific examples of
> 'lost' mails you tried to send outbound from DSLExtreme, including exact
> timestamps and other header data.

     Yes I did do that.  Your tutelage is responsible for the 
improvement in my behavior.

     Bobbie