Re: police report against the petition mob

[Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)]

On 2021-03-28 17:49, Jacob Bachmeyer wrote:
> Daniel Pocock wrote:
> > <rms@gnu.org>: host eggs.gnu.org[209.51.188.92] said: 550 bad domain - 
> > email
> >     sysadmin@fsf.org for details (in reply to RCPT TO command)
> >
> >
> > <gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org>: host eggs.gnu.org[209.51.188.92] said: 550 
> > bad
> >     domain - email sysadmin@fsf.org for details (in reply to RCPT TO
> > command)
>
> Those messages say "bad domain" ... either someone has very
> specifically rigged the mail server to specifically reject your email
> with a bogus error, or there was a very unfortunately timed
> configuration error that caused a GNU MX to be unaware that gnu.org
> exists.  Considering that the former would require specially modified
> code, while the latter could be the result of an innocent typo in a
> configuration file, I would suspect the latter to be more likely.

Can we tell from that diagnostic which domain is the "bad domain";

To be confident, I would need inside information: what the mail 
exchanger
is and how it is configured.

It is in response to a "RCPT TO" command, but that doesn't mean it
pertains only to the content of that command.

A mail exchanger can collect both the MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands,
and then subject the SMTP connection to numerous checks that include
validating the sender's domain (given in MAIL FROM).