[MapServer-dev] Mailing List Issues

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Seth,

My apologies for the delay in my response, I was still sleeping when you 
sent this message.

Frank and I manage the -users and -dev lists.

I was also affected by this problem: I believe that my email address is 
blocked from all OSGeo lists currently.

Background: this happened when SAC switched mail server hosts, and OSGeo 
was blacklisted when the IP addresses changed.   I first saw mention of 
this in December through 
https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2025-December/016916.html

I have now checked MapServer-users and MapServer-dev, and there was only 
one address blocked ("no reason: B").  I removed that now.

I am also an admin of gdal-dev, and that list is a whole different 
story, as there are hundreds of addresses with that problem.  Of course, 
it is hard to know if that is a valid block due to bounces, or was it 
due to this mail server switch.   In any case, I went through the 
gdal-dev subscriber list this morning and removed those blocked 
addresses.  (I will now send out test messages, and hopefully catch & 
remove the bounces email addresses sent back to me)

Sorry for the hassle, but, put plainly: my address is also now blocked 
from all OSGeo lists due to that episode, I hope that SAC tackles this, 
through a batch update for all OSGeo mailing lists.

Thanks,

-jeff



On 2026-01-23 5:10 a.m., Seth G via MapServer-dev wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I stopped receiving email from the gdal-dev mailing list on December 5th last year. I also missed several mapserver-users posts for around a week at the same time (although this restarted).
> 
> It appears some subscribers were blocked without warning / notice and had to be manually unblocked - see https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/3506#ticket
> 
> I'm wondering if the same has happened to anyone on the mapserver-users and mapserver-dev (not that they'll get this email if they have..)? I'm not sure who has admin access to check. I'll also request access from OSGeo SAC so I can check myself.
> 
> Seth
>