Re: Changing news group access

On Thu, 16 Apr 2015 10:13:18 -0400, Buck Calabro
<kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Folks:

Gmane.org should *NOT* send any mail to you. It's a READ ONLY resource.

Messages posted to the gmane.org news server will be sent to
midrange.com's mail server with your email address and processed as usual.

I got email from the GMane auto-authoriser. I think Ken has a very
tight email server for spam abatement reasons, and needed to add the
Gmane auto-authorise email sender to the white list.

That is correct.

Note that Gmane also does a real-time connect during the NNTP posting
to verify that the email address is valid, and this comes from a
different IP address than the actual authorizication check email that
is sent later.

If this initial check fails, the NNTP posting is rejected. (I found
this out because I initially typo'ed my postfix configuration change.)

So if anyone else has a very tightly locked system like me, the entire
IP address range for Gmane is 80.91.229.0 to 80.91.229.31
(80.91.229.0/27).

Ken
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