Using a "forged" sender's domain triggers mail blocking

Bug #2770 reported by Bastian Doetsch
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Not using ubuntu.com as sender domain triggers blocking of mail by spamfilters. See below.

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

  <email address hidden>
    SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<email address hidden>:
    host mx0.gmx.net [213.165.64.100]: 550-5.7.1 {mx024} The recipient does not accept mails from 'gmx.de' over foreign mailservers
    550 5.7.1 ( http://www.gmx.net/serverrules )

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

Return-path: <email address hidden>
Received: from [82.211.81.179] (helo=gangotri.warthogs.hbd.com)
        by adelie.ubuntu.com with esmtp (Exim 4.34 #1 (Debian))
        id 1EM2qI-0004nL-N4
        for <email address hidden>; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:21:22 +0100
Received: from gangotri.ubuntu.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
        by gangotri.warthogs.hbd.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A468A3181FD
        for <email address hidden>; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 13:21:22 +0100 (BST)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf8"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Reply-To: Bastian Doetsch via Malone <email address hidden>
Message-Id: <email address hidden>
References: <email address hidden>
Sender: <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
From: Bastian Doetsch <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 2054] Alexandria doesn't start
Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2005 12:21:22 -0000
Errors-To: <email address hidden>
X-Generated-By: Launchpad (canonical.com)

Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/2054

Comment:
FYI: the bug is fixed for me, as stated in the status.

Tags: lp-bugs
Revision history for this message
Brad Bollenbach (bradb) wrote :

Bastian,

I believe this problem should be fixed now. Bugmail now has a header like:

Received-SPF: neutral (gmail.com: 82.211.81.139 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of <email address hidden>)

Does this fix the problem for you?

Brad Bollenbach (bradb)
Changed in malone:
status: New → NeedInfo
Revision history for this message
Bastian Doetsch (bastian-doetsch) wrote :

ok...trying with this comment...

Revision history for this message
Bastian Doetsch (bastian-doetsch) wrote :

You solved the problem :-). Thanks a lot...

Changed in malone:
status: NeedInfo → Fixed
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