{"id":10605,"date":"2021-04-17T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10605"},"modified":"2021-04-17T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T18:58:39","slug":"not-so-glamorous-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10605","title":{"rendered":"Not so glamorous, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday it was hardware<\/a>, today it was software.<\/p>\n

An e-mail that I sent to a bell.ca address was rejected.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I am mistaken but I believe that these Bell\/Sympatico mailboxes are managed, handled by Yahoo!. And Yahoo! occasionally made my life difficult by either rejecting mail from my server or dropping it in the recipient’s spam folder. I tried to contact them once, but it was hopeless. Never mind that my domain, vttoth.com, is actually a few months older (July 1, 1994 as opposed to January 18, 1995) than Yahoo!’s and has been continuously owned by a single owner. Never mind that my domain was never used to send spam. Never mind that I get plenty of spam from Yahoo! accounts.<\/p>\n

Of course you can’t fight city hall. One thing I can do, instead, is to implement one of the protocols Yahoo wants, the DKIM protocol, to authenticate outgoing e-mail, improving its chances of getting accepted.<\/p>\n

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But setting it up was a bloody nuisance. So many little traps! In the end, I succeeded, but not before resorting to some rather colorful language.<\/p>\n

This little tutorial proved immensely helpful, so helpful in fact that I am going to save its contents, just in case:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.web-workers.ch\/index.php\/2019\/10\/21\/how-to-configure-dkim-spf-dmarc-on-sendmail-for-multiple-domains-on-centos-7\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Very well. It is time to return to more glamorous activities. It’s not like I don’t have things to do.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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