Re: Mail incorrectly getting flagged down as spam

[Bob Proulx]

Hello Chris,

Chris Punches wrote:
> My name is Chris Punches and I was referred to you by Greg Farough
> while I've been trying to chase down this issue.

Sure!  But I (and we here) take care of the other mailing lists and
not the GCC lists.  Therefore I have CC'd the team GNU mailing list
team on my reply.  I am thinking we will need help from Ian.

You see the GCC team is somewhat separate from most of the rest of the
GNU Project.  GCC is a big project and they have a lot of their own
infrastructure.  It might be a problem there on that side of things.

> For some reason as of this morning, my posts to gnu.org mailing lists,
> particualrly gcc, goes to "spam@localhost" after being rejected, and I
> get back messages indicating that it's getting routed by some kind of
> spam filter.  I was able to post fine until this morning.
> 
> Can you please provide some insight into why this is suddenly happening
> and how I can fix it?

The spam@localhost sounds like something that is happening on your
client end and won't be anything we have any control over.  That would
be a problem on your end.

If you are getting a rejection from gnu.org then that part might need
help from one of the FSF sysadmins (CC'd) to look at the logs and
determine what is happening.  Let's get them all of the information
they will need to take a look at things.  I'll copy and comment.

> Reporting-MTA: dns; sourceware.org
> X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 62B1A3858012
> X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; chris.punches@silogroup.org
> Arrival-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:26:56 +0000 (GMT)
> 
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; spam@localhost
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.2.2
> Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; input/output error

I think 62B1A3858012 is the queue id from your system.  Which makes it
less than useful.  It's how your system is filing bounce rejections.

I looked in the archive and it appears your most recent message to the
mailing list was this one.

    Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 19:09:24 -0400
    Message-ID: <2601b4644a3a0965552d07f2e82ef20fe05582d1.camel@silogroup.org>
    From: Chris Punches <chris.punches@silogroup.org>

Everything looks to be the same as on this message.  And you emailed
me using my rwp@gnu.org address which also nicely tests that you can
email through to the same incoming mail exchange that 

    Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:20:00 -0400
    Message-ID: <e4e49324f2f78bd5c3c060b357992e2428d9bf26.camel@silogroup.org>
    From: Chris Punches <chris.punches@silogroup.org>

I am listing those hoping it is easier for FSF sysadmin to grep
through the logs and figure out why you were recently rejected.
I assume "Wed, 14 Apr 2021 14:26:56 +0000" is near the time it was
sent so hopefully sysadmin will find a rejection near then in the logs
and that will be the information needed.

For a test would you please reply to this message?  I have set the
Reply-To header so that it should go to the mailman@gnu.org address.
I am sure that will work but if so then I do not have any idea why
your most recent message was rejected.

Was there something unusual about your most recent message?  Was it
very large, perhaps too large?  Was the content of it including
something that might have triggered a content filter?

Bob