gnucash.org vs. lists.gnucash.org

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Dec 4 11:39:46 EST 2017



> On Dec 4, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

So it did, and no error this time. More weirdness, I guess.

Regards,
John Ralls



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