[ADMIN] Did your mail to the list vanish?

[Nick Arnett]

I have fixed a restriction on our mail server (the new config, from the 
Friday morning crash) that sent mail into a black hole if you sent it 
from a host whose FQDN could not be looked up. That's an anti-spam 
restriction that I copied from our secondary mail server, which has very 
tight restrictions.

With help from Erik Reuter, whose mail was going into the aforementioned 
black hole, I got rid of the restrictions.  This probably didn't affect 
you unless you operate your own mail server, but just in case, I wanted 
to let everyone know it's fixed and you should re-send any mail that was 
thus affected.

Note that the mail would *not* have bounced.  It would have just 
vanished.  We don't bounce suspected spam (don't take that personally), 
we just pipe it to /dev/null.

This would only have been an issue since Saturday morning, when I got 
the list back on the air.

Oh, and good news -- data recovery from the trashed disk is going well, 
so I think I'll have archives back up soon.  Our mirrored RAID saved the 
data, but only on the disk that is failing -- I managed to muck up the 
good disk trying to rebuild the RAID.  Live and learn...

Nick

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Nick Arnett
Director, Business Intelligence Services
LiveWorld Inc.
Phone/fax: (408) 551-0427
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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