Re: Continued mail server problems for all PGSQL mailing

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: Phil Howard <phil-pgsql-general(at)ipal(dot)net>, jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Continued mail server problems for all PGSQL mailing
Date: 2003-08-10 01:08:42
Message-ID: 20030810010842.GB15856@svana.org
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On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 08:05:58PM -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Phil Howard wrote:
> > Then is 207.173.200.206 a spammer running Sendmail and faking these mailing
> > lists?
>
> My first guess is that the machine we are using @ CommandPrompt as a relay
> point has multiple IPs on it, and the outbound IP is being seen as 206,
> while we're sending i through 143 ...

FWIW, the headers of your email contain the following:

From pgsql-general-owner+M46851=kleptog=svana(dot)org(at)postgresql(dot)org Sun Aug 10 09:27:21 2003
Received: from (hosting.commandprompt.com) [207.173.200.206]
by svana.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
id 19ld7I-00040e-00; Sun, 10 Aug 2003 09:27:20 +1000
Received: from postgresql.org (developer.postgresql.org [64.117.224.193])
by hosting.commandprompt.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h79NRAK09068
for <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>; Sat, 9 Aug 2003 16:27:13 -0700

Hope this helps,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> "All that is needed for the forces of evil to triumph is for enough good
> men to do nothing." - Edmond Burke
> "The penalty good people pay for not being interested in politics is to be
> governed by people worse than themselves." - Plato

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