[MapServer-dev] Mailing List Issues

[Jeff McKenna]

Correction: the Mailman exact setting was ("no mail: B")

-jeff



On 2026-01-23 8:32 a.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
> 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
>>
> 
> 


-- 
Jeff McKenna
GatewayGeo: Developers of MS4W, & offering MapServer Consulting/Dev
co-founder of FOSS4G
http://gatewaygeo.com/