Re: You have been removed from the list (repeatedly)
Hi.
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 04:40:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> Is this happening to anyone else?
Not yet.
> Is there anything I can do to stop it, other than simply
> re-subscribing every time I post?
It says there plain and clear:
> > When in doubt, ... or send mail to "postmaster".
Lists' postmasters were very helpful in pointing at errors in my setup
when I had the problems with the list in the past. Mail them, ask for
help.
The most probable cause of your troubles - you do not have DMARC policy
published, which means the whole Internet could send bounces to the list
on your behalf. SPF policy that you have published is not enough.
> What is this "vps268904.ovh.net",
"whois ovh.net" will tell you all you need to know about it,
specifically - an abuse e-mail. Consider sending an e-mail there as
well.
Long story short - that host belongs to OVH, one of the Europe largest
hosting provider, and it's withing their power to excommunicate one of
their clients.
> why is it sending messages with the subject "**stop**",
Because it's host owner who misconfigured that sorry excuse for an MTA
called "Kerio Connect", so it's sending bounces.
> why do no such messages appear in the web archive of debian-user,
Because the list archive does not store bounces.
> and why are these messages causing me to become unsubscribed?
This e-mail is the consequence, not the reason of it. After all, it says
"we have already unsubscribed", so it was some other e-mail that got you
into this trouble.
> My best guess is that someone is spamming debian-user, the messages are
> being sent to everyone, my local MTA's spam filters are blocking them,
> and the mailing list is getting mad at me for blocking the spam that it's
> sending to me.
Silently discarding spam was always OK.
Replying to the spammer via list was not and is not.
Bouncing spammer e-mail (which could happen due to MTA misconfiguration
on your part) will get you removed from the list.
Reco
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