[LAU] lists.ardour.org email config is broken -- was Re: how much is contained in the .ardour file

[Paul Davis]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 5:09 PM, Marc-Olivier Barre
<marco at marcochapeau.org>wrote:

> On 2012-06-12 22:39, Robin Gareus wrote:
>
>> On 06/12/2012 06:05 PM, Fons Adriaensen wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:59:51AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
>>>
>>
>>  Strange. But I've no control over it, the linuxaudio.org address
>>> goes to a machine at Virginia Tech. There were some changes to
>>> that system a few days ago, but I don't know the details.
>>>
>>
>> Just a normal regular system-update, debian security updates.
>>
>> Mailman was updated as port of that, as was dovecot (imap),
>> but our trusty old postfix is still the same. Yet spamassassin has
>> updated rules which made ardour.org's misconfiguration eventually tip
>> over:  lists.aroudr.org  BAD_MX=8.925
>>
>
> hold on, hold on... lists.ardour.org much necessarily have an MX record
> otherwise the ardour mailing lists would not work at all (the address
> ardour-dev at lists.ardour.org wouldn't work otherwise)
>

i passed robin's email along to dreamhost to see what their response is too.


>
> Although something is certainly fishy with regards to the way the
> ardour.org domain is configured. Even if an MX record must exist I can't
> seem to find a corresponding IP (the MX is hostmaster.dreamhost.com,
> which does not seem to have an A record...)
>

keep in mind that ardour.org != foobar.ardour.org
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