[Slackbuilds-users] My new submission was rejected by mx.partnerconsole.net

[Duncan Roe]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 09:12:12AM +0200, Beni wrote:
> On 08/21/2016 05:01 AM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On trying to upload a new package, I received
> >
> >> duncan_roe at acslink.net.au was rejected by mx.partnerconsole.net.
> >> Go back and enter a valid E-Mail address.
> >
> > but that's my subscribed address. What's happening?
>
> I had the same problem once. In my case the reason was that the
> mailserver uses graylisting as a method to defend spam. This leads to it
> refusing the first connection of a unknown remote mailserver and waiting
> for it to try a second time. Most spam bots won't try again.
>
> Unfortunately the script that checks e-mail addresses on Slackbuilds
> uses this first connection to check whether a email is valid. The only
> way I had to solve this was to use another address. You you have this
> option, you could try to deactivate graylisting.
>
> Beni
> _______________________________________________
Hi Beni,

Thank you for your reply.

I have encountered the "refusing the first connection of a unknown remote
mailserver" syndrome in the past, and not just the first connection either. My
ISP has multiple server hosts and each seems ignorant of what any of the others
has already bounced. That's how it seems from the outside anyway, but they won't
confirm it of course.

Or the problem may be that the Slackbuilds email checker believes the MX
records. These point to partnerconsole.net but email headers always show mail
coming via netregistry.net. I have no idea how this works but it seems to, most
of the time.

I am raising a ticket with the domain owner,

Cheers ... Duncan.