Problem e-mailing this forum

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I tried to send a reply to a post on this forum via e-mail, and kept getting “message not delivered” responses from my e-mail provider (GMail), until I got this final one today:

 Message not delivered
There was a problem delivering your message to noreply@discuss.linuxcontainers.org. See the technical details below. 

 The response was:

The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720 [2602:fd23:8:1005:216:3eff:fedb:68f3 2602:fd23:8:1005:216:3eff:fedb:68f3: timed out]
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I also got a link in there, to this page: Fix bounced or rejected emails - Gmail Help

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I’ve asked @stgraber to confirm whether we would expect replies going to noreply@discuss.linuxcontainers.org to work.

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No, noreply won’t accept replies. The e-mails you get from DIscourse have a Reply-To that’s set to a very long token based address which allows for posting as you in the specific topic.

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I tried replying (via email) to this thread, to say “my bad & I understand”, not to the no-reply address, but to a long string address, and got this error this time:

 Delivery incomplete
There was a temporary problem delivering your message to 2917ed586324eb253ad6208a94ab7b0d@discuss.linuxcontainers.org. Gmail will retry for 143 more hours. You'll be notified if the delivery fails permanently. 

 The response was:

The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7720 [2602:fd23:8:1005:216:3eff:fedb:68f3 2602:fd23:8:1005:216:3eff:fedb:68f3: timed out]
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Oh, there’s definitely something wrong with the Google anti-spam layer we’re using… Those IPv6 addresses are indirect. I’ll sort it out soon.

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I’ve corrected the address on Google’s side, hopefully the next retry will make it through.

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Let’s see… this is an e-mail message.

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Test one last time…

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Looks like it’s working fine :slight_smile: