[volunteers] Google started refusing mail delivery from us

[Sarah Newman]

On 11/23/2016 10:44 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
<snip>
> According to this blog post among others, Google/GMail rolled out this
> reject rule around _2013_.
> https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article109/google-ipv6-smtp-restrictions
> So, it is extremely unclear to me what caused this reject rule to hit us
> _now_.  So, that's a mstery.
> 
> I can see three ways to make the symptom go away.  I propose to do both
> #1 and #2 (reserving #3 as the big hammer if needed):
> 
> Solution 1.  Change Exim to make it IPV4-only for outbound SMTP.
> Solution 2.  Request that prgmr.com add a PTR for IP 2605:2700:0:2::4713:900d to
>              the reverse DNS zone.


It's possible to do this from the management console svlug at svlug.console.xen.prgmr.com. I logged in as a normal user to do it.

At the moment only Rick and me have access, but it is straight forward to add others if there are others who should have such access.

--Sarah