gnucash.org vs. lists.gnucash.org

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Mon Dec 4 11:19:56 EST 2017


John,

On Mon, December 4, 2017 11:10 am, John Ralls wrote:
>
>
>> On Dec 4, 2017, at 8:05 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
>>
>>> I've got a better and even weirder reason to prefer
>>> gnucash-devel at gnucash.org: When I send mail to
>>> gnucash-devel at lists.gnucash.org and route the mail through comcast.net
>>> (my ISP) the mail bounces because the terminal comcast
>>> mail server won't talk to lists.gnucash.org. It's perfectly happy to
>>> talk to gnucash.org even though it's the same computer (the one we
>>> fondly refer to as "code"). That means I always have to check the CC
>>> when I reply-all to make sure it's the right address.
>>
>> This is weird.  I see no reason why this would be the case.  In fact,
>> gnucash.org has an MX record pointing to lists.gnucash.org, which
>> implies it's sending to the same machine either way.
>>
>> I suppose we could try adding an MX for lists pointing to itself?
>
>
> Yeah, no argument that it’s weird. Sending this to lists.gnucash.org
> <http://lists.gnucash.org/> to make sure and to capture the error.

This made it to the list.  I'd certainly like to see if you received an
error, and if so what it says.

> Regards,
> John Ralls

-derek
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