From Friday 11/10 through Friday 11/17 some email messages passing through nerdylorrin.net were bounced back to the sender.
nerdylorrin.net lives in my basement attached to a Comcast cable modem. Sending mail from Comcast is difficult! Normally mail servers directly contact the destination mail server to transmit the email. Unfortunately many mail servers refuse direct connections from Comcast subscribers because the ratio of spambots to real mail servers is too high. I had been relaying mail through Comcast’s official mail server to avoid this problem. But Comcast’s mail server didn’t like the volume of mail it was receiving from nerdylorrin.net.
Chuck has generously offered to let me route mail through his server (which lives in a real data center). This resolves the problem since Chuck’s server has neither the spam stigma of a Comcast subscriber nor the quotas of Comcast’s official mail server. Thanks Chuck!
Affected messages unfortunately can’t be retrieved since they were bounced back to the original sender without going through nerdylorrin.net again. The total number of affected messages appears to have been small. Apologies for any headaches this caused.
