Reporting a bug got me an SMTP bounceback

by eponymous_coward on Aug 7, 2008 2:08 PM PDT

This is the mail system at host smtp.dailykos.com.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

                   The mail system

<bugreport@sbnation.com>: host mail.satanosphere.com[69.9.170.114] said: 550
    <bugreport@sbnation.com>: Recipient address rejected: Mail appeared to be
    SPAM or forged. Ask your Mail/DNS-Administrator to correct HELO and DNS MX
    settings or to get removed from DNSBLs; in postmaster.rfc-ignorant.org; in
    abuse.rfc-ignorant.org (in reply to RCPT TO command)

Bug report was

New contact from sbnation.com:

Subject: Bug in URL handling
Department: Support

Name: (me)
Email: (my email)

Comments:
You seem to have an issue where a double dash in a URL ruins the URL.

The URL I tried to use was:

www.faniq.com/video/1968-World-Series--Bob-Gibson--Classic-MLB-Footage--Harry-Caray--YouTube-3511

In this SB Nation Fanpost here:

http://www.lookoutlanding.com/2008/8/7/588879/tim-lincecum-vs-felix-hern

You see that the -- isn't escaped. Is this some sort of code for SB Nation formatting or something?

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Looks like you are on their shitlist.

Mail appeared to be SPAM or forged. Ask your Mail/DNS-Administrator to correct HELO and DNS MX settings or to get removed from DNSBLs;

Either your mail server is set up incorrectly, or it doesn’t like the address you’re coming from. Check your domain name on http://www.dnsbl.org/ first, as that is what it looks like they use.

Either that or send from a different address.

by Faux on Aug 8, 2008 6:06 PM PDT 0 recs