• Re: Bug email is not getting to me

    From Andrea Pappacoda@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 25 22:50:02 2022
    Il giorno dom 25 set 2022 alle 15:42:40 -05:00:00, Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> ha scritto:
    When I first started with Debian many many years ago, I would
    routinely see
    email for bug reports submitted against packages I maintain, and
    responses to
    said bugs. Nowadays I get essentially none of that.

    Hi, I think that this is related to bug #754809.

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  • From Geert Stappers@21:1/5 to Steven Robbins on Sun Sep 25 23:00:02 2022
    On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote:
    Hi,

    When I first started with Debian many many years ago, I would routinely see email for bug reports submitted against packages I maintain, and responses to said bugs. Nowadays I get essentially none of that. The only way I see such responses is by perusing bugs via the web interface -- which I do infrequently
    so messages languish.

    I may have missed when something changed over the years. Is there something I
    must do to get bugs.debian.org to reliably send me email?

    I just noticed today that this applies even to responses that apparently directly CC my debian address; e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/ bugreport.cgi?bug=1020397;msg=10

    I literally searched my mail logs for the Message-ID in question and it is not
    reported. So it appears to have been hung up somewhere. How can I debug this?

    I have sent a test email to my debian address and it came through. So I think
    email is normally being delivered. Just not from bug reports.


    Who is running the incoming mail server?


    P.S. This has been happening for months if not years. It's just that I haven't been motivated to ask the question until now.

    So the change might be "fresh".


    P.P.S. I don't subscribe to any debian lists, so it is appreciated to directly cc me in replies.

    You are welcome



    Groeten
    Geert Stappers
    Runs his own mail server
    --
    Silence is hard to parse

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  • From Steven Robbins@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 25 15:42:40 2022
    Copy: smr@debian.org (smr)

    Hi,

    When I first started with Debian many many years ago, I would routinely see email for bug reports submitted against packages I maintain, and responses to said bugs. Nowadays I get essentially none of that. The only way I see such responses is by perusing bugs via the web interface -- which I do infrequently so messages languish.

    I may have missed when something changed over the years. Is there something I must do to get bugs.debian.org to reliably send me email?

    I just noticed today that this applies even to responses that apparently directly CC my debian address; e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/ bugreport.cgi?bug=1020397;msg=10

    I literally searched my mail logs for the Message-ID in question and it is not reported. So it appears to have been hung up somewhere. How can I debug
    this?

    I have sent a test email to my debian address and it came through. So I think email is normally being delivered. Just not from bug reports.

    Thanks,
    -Steve

    P.S. This has been happening for months if not years. It's just that I haven't been motivated to ask the question until now.

    P.P.S. I don't subscribe to any debian lists, so it is appreciated to
    directly cc me in replies.


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  • From Steven Robbins@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 25 16:20:18 2022
    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 3:49:37 P.M. CDT Geert Stappers wrote:
    On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 03:42:40PM -0500, Steven Robbins wrote:

    I just noticed today that this applies even to responses that apparently directly CC my debian address; e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/ bugreport.cgi?bug=1020397;msg=10

    I literally searched my mail logs for the Message-ID in question and it is not reported. So it appears to have been hung up somewhere. How can I debug this?

    I have sent a test email to my debian address and it came through. So I think email is normally being delivered. Just not from bug reports.

    Who is running the incoming mail server?

    The mail server is run by my ISP (shaw.ca). Using fetchmail, I pick up the email via IMAP and send it into my local server. So in my original message when I said I had checked the logs -- it was my local server logs.

    To re-iterate: mail sent today to my debian address from outside debian came through OK. Mail sent from bugs.debian.org apparently does not. I think if there were any issue with the incoming email server (e.g. the DMARC thing that Andrea Pappacoda referenced) that would affect all email to me at debian, wouldn't it?

    -Steve

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  • From Adam D. Barratt@21:1/5 to Steven Robbins on Sun Sep 25 23:50:01 2022
    On Sun, 2022-09-25 at 15:42 -0500, Steven Robbins wrote:
    When I first started with Debian many many years ago, I would
    routinely see
    email for bug reports submitted against packages I maintain, and
    responses to
    said bugs. Nowadays I get essentially none of that. The only way I
    see such
    responses is by perusing bugs via the web interface -- which I do infrequently
    so messages languish.

    I may have missed when something changed over the years. Is there
    something I
    must do to get bugs.debian.org to reliably send me email?

    I just noticed today that this applies even to responses that
    apparently
    directly CC my debian address; e.g. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/ bugreport.cgi?bug=1020397;msg=10


    The copy of that mail to your debian.org address is being rejected by
    your mail server (slightly harvesting-fudged by me; the original log
    has valid addresses):

    2022-09-25 13:52:49 1obmVB-00FbmZ-3r == steve.robbins [at] shaw.ca
    R=dnslookup T=remote_smtp defer (-46) H=shw-central.mx.a.cloudfilter.net [15.222.199.59] DT=4s: SMTP error from remote mail server after end of data: 421 4.2.0 <debian [at] alteholz.de> sender rejected AUP#SNDR

    If you want to know _why_, I suggest you talk to the mail server
    operator and/or check your settings.

    Regards,

    Adam

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Steven Robbins on Mon Sep 26 00:00:01 2022
    Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> writes:

    To re-iterate: mail sent today to my debian address from outside debian
    came through OK. Mail sent from bugs.debian.org apparently does not. I think if there were any issue with the incoming email server (e.g. the
    DMARC thing that Andrea Pappacoda referenced) that would affect all
    email to me at debian, wouldn't it?

    No, the annoying thing about the DMARC problem is that its effect depends
    on the configuration settings of the person sending the email.

    If someone sends mail from a domain that says all mail from that domain
    will always have good DKIM signatures, and if the signature isn't present
    or doesn't validate the mail should be rejected, and that message is
    forwarded through bugs.debian.org to someone whose mail server honors
    DMARC settings, the mail will be rejected. That's because the process of modifying the message in the way that bugs.debian.org needs to do (adding
    the bug number to the Subject header, for instance) usually breaks the signature.

    If you send mail from a domain that has a more relaxed (or no) DMARC configuration, then your mail will go through fine and you'll not see the problem.

    --
    Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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  • From Steven Robbins@21:1/5 to All on Sun Sep 25 20:52:01 2022
    Thanks to all who responded. I have learned a lot!

    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 4:57:19 P.M. CDT Russ Allbery wrote:

    Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> writes:
    To re-iterate: mail sent today to my debian address from outside debian came through OK. Mail sent from bugs.debian.org apparently does not. I think if there were any issue with the incoming email server (e.g. the DMARC thing that Andrea Pappacoda referenced) that would affect all
    email to me at debian, wouldn't it?

    No, the annoying thing about the DMARC problem is that its effect depends
    on the configuration settings of the person sending the email.

    Oh! OK. So Adam Barratt found a log somewhere that confirms my ISP is blocking the sender.

    If someone sends mail from a domain that says all mail from that domain
    will always have good DKIM signatures, and if the signature isn't present
    or doesn't validate the mail should be rejected, and that message is forwarded through bugs.debian.org to someone whose mail server honors
    DMARC settings, the mail will be rejected. That's because the process of modifying the message in the way that bugs.debian.org needs to do (adding
    the bug number to the Subject header, for instance) usually breaks the signature.

    So are you effectively confirming this is indeed the DMARC bug [1] filed in 2014?

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754809

    If you send mail from a domain that has a more relaxed (or no) DMARC configuration, then your mail will go through fine and you'll not see the problem.

    Well, OK. But I'm the recipient not the sender so this advice is hard to implement :-)

    -Steve

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  • From Russ Allbery@21:1/5 to Steven Robbins on Mon Sep 26 04:10:01 2022
    Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> writes:
    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 4:57:19 P.M. CDT Russ Allbery wrote:

    If someone sends mail from a domain that says all mail from that domain
    will always have good DKIM signatures, and if the signature isn't
    present or doesn't validate the mail should be rejected, and that
    message is forwarded through bugs.debian.org to someone whose mail
    server honors DMARC settings, the mail will be rejected. That's
    because the process of modifying the message in the way that
    bugs.debian.org needs to do (adding the bug number to the Subject
    header, for instance) usually breaks the signature.

    So are you effectively confirming this is indeed the DMARC bug [1] filed
    in 2014?

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754809

    Yeah, that's my guess. It's a very common problem.

    The right solution is probably for bugs.debian.org to rewrite all incoming
    mail to change the From header to a debian.org address (probably the bug address) and add a Reply-To header pointing to the original sender. This
    is the fix that Mailman mostly uses, and it seems to work (I've had this problem with multiple mailing lists I run and turning on this message
    mangling has fixed it). But of course someone has to find time to
    implement this.

    --
    Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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  • From Theodore Ts'o@21:1/5 to Russ Allbery on Mon Sep 26 20:50:01 2022
    On Sun, Sep 25, 2022 at 07:00:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
    Steven Robbins <steve@sumost.ca> writes:
    On Sunday, September 25, 2022 4:57:19 P.M. CDT Russ Allbery wrote:

    If someone sends mail from a domain that says all mail from that domain
    will always have good DKIM signatures, and if the signature isn't
    present or doesn't validate the mail should be rejected, and that
    message is forwarded through bugs.debian.org to someone whose mail
    server honors DMARC settings, the mail will be rejected. That's
    because the process of modifying the message in the way that
    bugs.debian.org needs to do (adding the bug number to the Subject
    header, for instance) usually breaks the signature.

    So are you effectively confirming this is indeed the DMARC bug [1] filed
    in 2014?

    [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754809

    Yeah, that's my guess. It's a very common problem.

    The right solution is probably for bugs.debian.org to rewrite all incoming mail to change the From header to a debian.org address (probably the bug address) and add a Reply-To header pointing to the original sender. This
    is the fix that Mailman mostly uses, and it seems to work (I've had this problem with multiple mailing lists I run and turning on this message mangling has fixed it). But of course someone has to find time to
    implement this.

    Yeah, what would be nice is if it massaged the From header to
    something like this:

    From: Theodore Tso <NNNNNN@bugs.debian.org>
    Reply-to: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>

    That makes things a bit friendlier for various mail user agents, while bypassing the DKIM signature problem. But as Russ said, the trick is
    finding someone with time to implement the change in the Debian BTS...

    - Ted

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  • From Sean Whitton@21:1/5 to Russ Allbery on Fri Sep 30 17:10:01 2022
    Hello,

    On Sun 25 Sep 2022 at 07:00PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:

    The right solution is probably for bugs.debian.org to rewrite all incoming mail to change the From header to a debian.org address (probably the bug address) and add a Reply-To header pointing to the original sender. This
    is the fix that Mailman mostly uses, and it seems to work (I've had this problem with multiple mailing lists I run and turning on this message mangling has fixed it). But of course someone has to find time to
    implement this.

    ARC is meant to be an alternative to this, eventually, right?

    --
    Sean Whitton

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  • From Ansgar@21:1/5 to Sean Whitton on Fri Sep 30 17:50:01 2022
    On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 08:00 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
    On Sun 25 Sep 2022 at 07:00PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:

    The right solution is probably for bugs.debian.org to rewrite all incoming mail to change the From header to a debian.org address (probably the bug address) and add a Reply-To header pointing to the original sender.  This is the fix that Mailman mostly uses, and it seems to work (I've had this problem with multiple mailing lists I run and turning on this message mangling has fixed it).  But of course someone has to find time to implement this.

    ARC is meant to be an alternative to this, eventually, right?

    I doubt that. You would need to trust all mail relays (like lists.d.o)
    to not be abusive, otherwise it would be trivial to abuse this.

    Ansgar

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  • From Marco d'Itri@21:1/5 to Sean Whitton on Fri Sep 30 17:50:01 2022
    On Sep 30, Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> wrote:

    ARC is meant to be an alternative to this, eventually, right?
    Right, but it has been such for so many years now that I am not holding
    my breath waiting for it.

    --
    ciao,
    Marco

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