g051051 Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Messages to my spamcop.net address are not being delivered to my gmail.com account. I've tried sending emails from other systems to the spamcop.net address, but nothing gets through, no bounce errors, etc. When attempting to validate spamcop via mailhosts, it attempts to send the verification email to vmx5.spamcop.net, which times out. Attempting to access the webmail client to check forwarding via these instructions (https://www.spamcop.net/ces/setup_forwarding2.shtml) fails with a ERR_NOT_RESOLVED in Chrome. Attempting to use the help form at https://www.spamcop.net/ces/contact.shtml fails, because the form submits to mail.spamcop.net, which isn't resolving in DNS. Anyone have any idea what's going on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 3 hours ago, g051051 said: Anyone have any idea what's going on? As of yesterday May the 13th Australia mine was working? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g051051 Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share Posted May 14, 2021 7 hours ago, petzl said: As of yesterday May the 13th Australia mine was working? How do you configure the forwarding for your spamcop.net email address? The link on the page I quoted says to login at http://webmail.spamcop.net/, which fails. When I try various ways to do a DNS lookup, I don't get any results. I do get one for vmx5.spamcop.net (and I can ping it), but both webmail.spamcop.net and mail.spamcop.net fail to resolved with A or CNAME records. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 (edited) 19 minutes ago, g051051 said: How do you configure the forwarding for your spamcop.net email address? The link on the page I quoted says to login at http://webmail.spamcop.net/, which fails. When I try various ways to do a DNS lookup, I don't get any results. I do get one for vmx5.spamcop.net (and I can ping it), but both webmail.spamcop.net and mail.spamcop.net fail to resolved with A or CNAME records. Send a web form message, never touched mine. But been using it since last millennium Suggest check your forwarding email is correct Otherwise you will need to contact support deputy[AT] or is it Deputies? Edited May 14, 2021 by petzl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnarlymarley Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 I don't use the CES email forwarding either. 8 hours ago, petzl said: Otherwise you will need to contact support deputy[AT] or is it Deputies? I use deputies[at]admin[dot]spamcop[dot]net to get a deputy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g051051 Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 On 5/14/2021 at 7:43 AM, petzl said: Send a web form message, never touched mine. But been using it since last millennium Suggest check your forwarding email is correct Otherwise you will need to contact support deputy[AT] or is it Deputies? When I try to use that form, I get ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED from my browser for mail.spamcop.net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g051051 Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 15 hours ago, gnarlymarley said: I don't use the CES email forwarding either. I use deputies[at]admin[dot]spamcop[dot]net to get a deputy. Thanks, I'll try that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g051051 Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 More tests reveal the following: Forwarding is actually working. Sending from another gmail account or yahoo account gets through. Sending from the account that it points to doesn't get through. Is this known behavior to prevent loops? The thing I was trying in the first place (get a password reset email from a company) still doesn't get through, so it's most likely something at their end. So, it doesn't seem to be a spamcop problem, although the inability to submit help requests or access the configuration for forwarding is still an issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnarlymarley Posted May 15, 2021 Share Posted May 15, 2021 On 5/14/2021 at 5:33 AM, g051051 said: but both webmail.spamcop.net and mail.spamcop.net fail to resolved with A or CNAME records. Looks like both domains are gone as I get a nxdomain response to the look ups. http://forum.spamcop.net/topic/9519-sendmail-woes/?tab=comments#comment-154703 This may be why: http://forum.spamcop.net/topic/14277-cesmail-system-changes/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g051051 Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 1 hour ago, gnarlymarley said: This may be why: http://forum.spamcop.net/topic/14277-cesmail-system-changes/ I know about that, but I'd expect that the various help pages would be updated and new links made to verify/adjust forwarding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g051051 Posted May 15, 2021 Author Share Posted May 15, 2021 I heard back from deputies[at]admin[dot]spamcop[dot]net. They confirmed that those old hosts are just gone, and that no one has gone back to clean up the old pages (yet). Also, the place to check/change your forwarding is in the SpamCop reporting account, under Preferences, change Email address or name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnarlymarley Posted May 16, 2021 Share Posted May 16, 2021 20 hours ago, g051051 said: no one has gone back to clean up the old pages (yet). That will probably take a while as there are a lot of pages out there. I think some of the volunteers use to fix the pages before they died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petzl Posted May 17, 2021 Share Posted May 17, 2021 Seemed to die when the SpamCop private "UserNet" went to web "usernet" Also spam is now handled a lot better if you use Cisco email servers you rarely see it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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