Re: Problem with no longer getting email from IPFire Community

[Michael Tremer <michael.tremer@ipfire.org>]

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Hi,

@Peter: Did you have time to have a look already?

-Michael

> On 16 Dec 2020, at 20:20, Jon Murphy <jcmurphy26(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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> Michael,
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> There is one revoke email in Discourse in the Staff Actions area:
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> Won't be sending emails to 'adolf.belka(a)gmail.com' until 2021-01-14 21:42:05 UTC.
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> I don’t know why…
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> Jon
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:38:58 +0100
>> From: Michael Tremer <michael.tremer(a)ipfire.org>
>> To: Adolf Belka <ahb.ipfire(a)gmail.com>
>> Cc: "IPFire: Development-List" <development(a)lists.ipfire.org>
>> Subject: Re: Problem with no longer getting email from IPFire
>> 	Community
>> Message-ID: <99793E2B-219E-421D-B412-583D62FEC973(a)ipfire.org>
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>> Hi,
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>> I am sorry to hear this and I would like to get to the bottom of this assuming that other people have the same problem.
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>> I checked the mail server log, and it looks like all emails to your email address have been successfully sent. It could have been that Google has bounced them - maybe that has something to do with the outage that also affected Gmail.
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>> I cannot see anything suspicious in the logs. Maybe Peter can have a look to be sure.
>> 
>> The process is as follows: Discourse has its own email service which simply is horrible. We have a local Postfix instance that only accepts emails from Discourse and relays them to our main email server which only accepts connections if they present a client certificate and we only allow TLSv1.3 internally, and of course we have DANE switched on, too.
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>> Those emails are then sent out to Gmail (in your case) from our main email relay. If Gmail was unavailable for some reason, Postfix would try  again for a while. The main relay is also handling all emails coming from and going to the list.
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>> If you like, I can set up an email inbox on our servers for you with an @ipfire.org address. But of course I would like to know first why Gmail didn?t work for you.
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>> Best,
>> -Michael 
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>>> On 16 Dec 2020, at 13:03, Adolf Belka <ahb.ipfire(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> 14 hours ago I got a system message online from IPFire Community. It said that that the last few emails to my Community email address had been bounced back as undeliverable.
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>>> I checked the email address and it is still entered as the correct one that has been running for the last year with IPFire Community. I have gmail set with no filters at all. I have checked and there are no emails from IPFire Community in my gmail boxes any more after 14 hours ago.
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>>> I am still getting emails from other lists and newsletters to the same email address but since 14 hours ago I have received nothing more from IPFire Community. There have been 7 postings that I would have normally received. I have also sent test emails to the email address and they are received.
>>> 
>>> Will the community email system start trying to send emails again or is that email address now permanently blocked. If the latter, then how can I change the IPFire Community email address. There is a change button for the email address I am using but if I enter another one then the system says that I can't carry that operation out.
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>>> I am still receiving the emails from this list as I used a different gmail address for this list.
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>>> 
>>> Thanks for any help that any one can give me.
>>> 
>>> Adolf
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