WineHQ: email trouble

[Dimitrie O. Paun]

Folks,

Whazzup with winehq.org? I get duplicated emails, and more 
importantly the latency on the wine-*@winehq.org mailing lists
is measured in (many) hours instead of seconds. What gives?

[Jeremy White]

After the server crash of last week, the newly built
server didn't have *quite* the same sendmail configuration.

In fact, it was busticated; the key problem we noticed
was that it was sending out bogus headers (localhost.localdomain),
which roughly 25% of mailer servers (correctly) discard.

We fixed that yesterday.  So first of all, some of you may want
to browse the archives (well, primarily if you haven't seen any emails
for 4-5 days, and then suddenly started seeing them again).

Jer spent all day yesterday struggling with the sendmail configuration
to get it to alias the from headers properly (so they always say
winehq.org, and have no evidence of wine.codeweavers.com).  After
much cursing and struggling, he finally gave up.  If there are any
sendmail experts that know exactly how to use the aliasing features,
feel free to offer Jer some help.  (Although he's got a *lot*
of other stuff to do, so he may defer this).

Beyond that, everything should be back to normal.  Let Jer or I know if
things still seem slow or strange.

Cheers,

Jer

Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Whazzup with winehq.org? I get duplicated emails, and more 
> importantly the latency on the wine-*@winehq.org mailing lists
> is measured in (many) hours instead of seconds. What gives?

[Gregory M. Turner]

On Thursday 01 May 2003 08:47 am, Jeremy White wrote:
> Jer spent all day yesterday struggling with the sendmail configuration

*shudder*

thanks Jer!

[Jeremy Newman]

On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 08:47, Jeremy White wrote:
> Jer spent all day yesterday struggling with the sendmail configuration
> to get it to alias the from headers properly (so they always say
> winehq.org, and have no evidence of wine.codeweavers.com).  After
> much cursing and struggling, he finally gave up.

Never ever give up! :-) I believe I have our new version of sendmail
configured correctly (8.12). The list should always identify itself
properly in the envelope as winehq.com. In the headers however the
actual hostname of wine.codeweavers.com is used.

If anyone still notices any oddities with either the headers or the
envelope please let me know.

[Shachar Shemesh]

Jeremy White wrote:
> If there are any
> sendmail experts that know exactly how to use the aliasing features,
> feel free to offer Jer some help.  (Although he's got a *lot*
> of other stuff to do, so he may defer this).

I usually fix sendmail problems by installing qmail. I'll be happy to 
help with this case as well.

If qmail is not an option, for some reason, may I suggest any other MTA 
that does not also function as an IRES?

Shachar
P.S.
IRES - Instant Root Elevation System.