[Slackbuilds-users] Maintaining heimer and some noise

[B. Watson]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2026, Eduardo Sanchez via SlackBuilds-users wrote:

> Someone identified as "B Watson" <urchlay at slackware.uk> wrote me asking
> if I intend to keep maintaining heimer.
>
> My answer was yes, I intend to keep maintaining it and I plan to update
> it to a newer version as soon as I can have some time to do it.

It's not noise to answer using the mailing list. Thanks for
getting back to me, and thanks for maintaining heimer.

> But I got this stupid message:
>
>> <urchlay at slackware.uk>: host witcher.mxrouting.net[45.43.208.43] said:
>>     550-Unauthenticated mail not allowed from this range to protected
>> domain, 550 nonspam senders request whitelisting at esf.mxroute.com
>> (in reply to RCPT TO command)
>
> Mr. Watson, if you do really want to receive answers to mail addresses
> you write to, please at least allow them to reply to you. It's stupid
> to email to someone, expecting a reply, while the destination's mail
> server and domain cannot reply.

I didn't intend to be stupid. I don't have direct control over the
mail server for slackware.uk (it's outsourced to a commercial email
service, so it doesn't even run on the slackware.uk servers). I had
no idea that mail from you would be blocked.

> Since I can't reach to him, I am writng this to the list in the hope
> that Mr. Watson is also here.

Yes, that was the right thing to do. Thanks.