[HECnet] HECnet mail gateway...

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2017-04-12 22:37, Mark Abene wrote:
> YOU worked at GOOGLE? Say it isn't so, Johnny!

Stressing the past tense, yes. No more bqt at google.com for me. :-)

> I responded elsewhere, I'm having the reverse problem trying to send
> mail to a HECnet address using gmail, and gmail is refusing the user
> part with the colons. Quoting it made it go through, but it never
> arrived at the destination...

Not sure exactly what my problem was. But as it was stuck on Mim I 
realized that my error handling on the MAIL11 side was not good, so I 
redesigned and expanded on it, and somehow that solved the problem with 
your mail as well... (or so I think.)

	Johnny

>
> -Mark
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se
> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
>     On 2017-04-10 21:45, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>
>         Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
>             On 2017-04-10 21:27, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>
>
>
>                 Sent from my iPhone
>
>                 On Apr 10, 2017, at 12:04, Johnny Billquist
>                 <bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>
>                     However, like I said, Google is refusing mails with
>                     a source address
>                     that don't pass various rules they have, which is in
>                     violation of RFC
>                     5321. And the silly think is that the error Google
>                     gives refers to
>                     RFC 5321 as a reason why they are refusing.
>
>                     As the source address should be used when reporting
>                     any problems
>                     back, I cannot really fake it either, without
>                     potentially loosing
>                     more information. I'm going to try and ping people
>                     at Google, but I
>                     do not have very high hopes of this being resolved.
>                     So the answer
>                     might just be that Google is broken, and you should
>                     avoid it.
>
>
>                 I'll poke some google friends and see if anyone is in
>                 the mail team.
>
>
>             Don't. I know people on that team, and have already pinged them.
>
>
>         Alrighty!
>
>
>     As I am no longer in that madhouse I guess I can admit now that I've
>     worked for the last almost 8 years there... Not on Gmail though.
>
>
>             Johnny
>
>     --
>     Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
>                                       ||  on a psychedelic trip
>     email: bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>             ||
>     Reading murder books
>     pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
>
>


-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol