in reply to Email delivery problems

Hello all, since it has been confirmed in this node, can someone contact me via email and help reset password of my old account here?

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Re^2: Email delivery problems
by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 27, 2024 at 14:22 UTC

    There should be no delivery problems for perlmonks.com or perlmonks.net as these had correct SPF records all the time. The SPF records for perlmonks.org have been updated yesterday, so in theory Gmail should let that recovery email through again.

    If that doesn't work, we will have to look for something that connects your old and new account, but first try again with Gmail.

      The SPF records for perlmonks.org have been updated yesterday, so in theory Gmail should let that recovery email through again.

      That implies a short TTL (less than 1 day) on the DNS records for perlmonks.org. Usually, the TTL is longer, and thus changes to DNS records can take longer to propagate through the DNS.

      Alexander

      --
      Today I will gladly share my knowledge and experience, for there are no sweeter words than "I told you so". ;-)
        > changes to DNS records can take longer to propagate

        It's propagated now!

        • a DNS check lists the correct MX IP in the SPF record
        • a check with an account with a Gmail address worked (turn around in under a minute!)

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      I tried triggering a password reminder on

      • perlmonks.org
      • www.perlmonks.org
      • perlmonks.com

      with an account with a Gmail address.

      I tried the same with

      • perlmonks.org ¹
      and an account with CPAN.org address (which is more "tolerant" since I was able to register there a week ago)

      Not sure if there are any hidden limitations on emails per day, but so far I haven't received any emails.

      I'll update this node if they finally arrive with delay.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

      PS: since this already took me a nerve wracking hour, I triggered this thread: Password email round-trip monitoring

      PPS: see also Re^2: Problems getting e-mails from Perlmonks

      updates

      ¹)

      • this @cpan.org request arrived Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:13:32 +0000 at cpan.org and the forward arrived 08:32:31 -0800 (PST) at gmail, emphasize added.
        Received: from vps918.pairvps.com (vps918.pairvps.com [216.92.237.59] ) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by 100.108.111.106 (trex/6.10.3); Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:13:32 +0000
        Authentication-Results: inbound.mailchannels.net; spf=softfail smtp.mailfrom=noreply@perlmonks.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; arc=none
        Received-SPF: softfail (dmarc-service-597c997457-j54gz: transitioning perlmonks.org does not designate 216.92.237.59 as permitted sender) client-ip=216.92.237.59; envelope-from=noreply@perlmonks.org; helo=vps918.pairvps.com;
        Received: by vps918.pairvps.com (Postfix, from userid 65534) id F0EA41A0E8B; Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:13:28 -0500 (EST)
        
      • I did SPF lookups for (www.|)perlmonks.(org|com|net) at various sites (like https://kitterman.com/spf/validate.html ) and there still seems to be a problem, maybe related to caching?
        v=spf1 a mx ip4:216.92.34.251 ip4:66.39.54.27 ~all
      > There should be no delivery problems for perlmonks.com or perlmonks.net as these had correct SPF records all the time.

      I'm a bit puzzled.

      My tests show identical emails from all domains, with the same sender noreply©perlmonks.org

      From my understanding is the SPF check dependent on the FROM: and the corresponding DNS entry whitelisting the IP of the delivering mail exchange host.

      Hence entries for .com or .net shouldn't/didn't matter, (as long as they are not used in the FROM.)

      Please correct me if I'm wrong.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
      see Wikisyntax for the Monastery

        Yeah, now that you ask it this way, I understand it. This is correct - we had the SPF record missing for the only domain that matters, perlmonks.org.