Email deliveries not working?
(1) By anonymous on 2018-11-16 14:51:18 [link] [source]
I noticed that I hadn't received any Forum emails for a while and it would seem that while new posts have made it to Fossil Forum, I haven't received anything new for 24 hours. Has anyone else received emails in the last 24 hours from Fossil Forum?
(2) By Francois Vogel (fvogel) on 2018-11-18 17:26:50 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
I'm seeing the same.
(3) By Florian Balmer (florian.balmer) on 2018-11-18 17:59:37 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
Without reading the docs, or looking up in the source code, I'd guess that you will only get digests if there were new messages in the last 24 hours.
You can prove me wrong in 24 hours :)
(4) By Francois Vogel (fvogel) on 2018-11-18 20:44:04 in reply to 3 [link] [source]
I'm subscribed to "Individual Emails", all three possible checkboxes checked.
The last message I received is dated Nov. 13 and is entitled "[fossil-forum] ChiselApp.com upgraded to Fossil 2.7"
(5) By Warren Young (wyoung) on 2018-11-19 02:25:28 in reply to 4 [link] [source]
Email alerts are stalled for this account, too, but the last message I received is for this post, a couple of days after the one you reference.
Ironic, given that the topic of that thread is breakdowns in reliable email delivery. :)
(6) By Martijn Coppoolse (vor0nwe) on 2018-11-19 08:41:16 in reply to 5 [link] [source]
I’m seeing the same; last message to be delivered to my account is also drh's reply to “First spam attempt stopped by design”.
(7) By Pietro Cerutti (gahr) on 2018-11-19 22:03:31 in reply to 6 [link] [source]
Same here
(8.1) By Richard Hipp (drh) on 2018-11-27 21:29:41 edited from 8.0 in reply to 1 [link] [source]
My fault. Sorry. Please poke me on my personal email, or phone me, or skype me, if this ever happens again.
(9) By anonymous on 2018-11-28 15:11:43 in reply to 8.1 [source]
I just assumed you were busy with more urgent matters.
(10) By Francois Vogel (fvogel) on 2018-11-29 16:42:01 in reply to 8.1 [link] [source]
Is email notification supposed to work again? I'm still not receiving messages.
Thanks!
(11) By sean (jungleboogie) on 2018-11-29 16:51:30 in reply to 10 [link] [source]
It has been working for me on this forum, sqlite commits and fossil-scm commits. Check your subscription to the forum to see if you've changed a selection.
(12) By Richard Hipp (drh) on 2018-11-29 17:06:38 in reply to 10 [link] [source]
Your email system is refusing to accept messages from this forum. Here is the message I am seeing in our logs:
Nov 29 17:02:29 ubuntu postfix/error[1080]: 54401AB25: to=******, relay=none, delay=0.01, delays=0/0/0/0, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: host mx2.free.fr[212.27.42.58] refused to talk to me: 421 Too many spams from your IP (45.33.6.223), please visit http://postmaster.free.fr/)
(13) By Eric Junkermann (ericj) on 2018-11-29 18:05:56 in reply to 12 [link] [source]
He won't be the only one whose ISP saw the flood after email was restarted as a sign of spam. In the case of free.fr, their website says (Google translation):
x50 Too many spam from your IP
Explanation
You have this error because your server sent too many spam messages to Free.fr subscribers, so the server made the decision to stop accepting connections from your SMTP server temporarily.
Solution
Your IP address will automatically be removed from the temporary blacklist after 24 hours maximum.
If you have your own SMTP server: waiting for the expiry of this delay we advise you to set up an antispam filter allowing you to no longer send / relay / forward spam to our servers
If you are using an SMTP relay: contact your service provider as soon as possible so that it can take appropriate measures so that it will not be blocked in the future.
Also, there are apparently now about 6 hours remaining for the blockage at the time of writing.
Possibly Fossil's mail sender should have some sort of throttle mechanism to avoid triggering this sort of thing?
Eric
(15) By anonymous on 2018-11-29 21:20:24 in reply to 13 [link] [source]
If I were the OP I would ask his ISP to show proof of spam before censoring his email. If indeed volume alone is being used as a measure of spam, that's a terrible metric.
(16.1) By Eric Junkermann (ericj) on 2018-11-29 21:46:58 edited from 16.0 in reply to 15 [link] [source]
No ISP would do that, it's all algorithms of one sort or another.
Not volume, rate.
Eric
(14) By anonymous on 2018-11-29 21:18:45 in reply to 12 [link] [source]
That's a temporary deferral. Presumably it should begin delivery again once the condition that is causing the temporary deferral is resolved. I highly doubt that 45.33.6.223 is sending spam. Sounds like an over-zealous spam blocker.
(17) By Eric Junkermann (ericj) on 2018-11-29 21:47:42 in reply to 14 [link] [source]
That address is sqlite.org!