Re: IETF Mail List Failure

[Alexa Morris <[e-mail]>]

I am relieved to report that the issue was repaired earlier today and DMARC rewriting is back online (and has been for several hours). I know that many of you are interested in hearing the technical details, and I will make sure that we share that information shortly. 

Regards,
Alexa

> On May 18, 2018, at 12:50 AM, Randy Bush <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
>> On 17 May, from 17:48 UTC (13:48 EDT) to 23:48 UTC (18:49 EDT),
>> outbound email from the IETF email lists failed to send. Mail sent to
>> the lists went into the archives, but was not received by list
>> subscribers.
>> 
>> A problem in the DMARC-rewriting system caused outbound mail delivery
>> to fail silently, without alarm or error message. The rewriting system
>> has been taken offline, which restored outbound email service.  The
>> lists are back up.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, because the mail was discarded rather than queued, if
>> you sent mail to any IETF list today during the outage window, we ask
>> you to please resend your message.
>> 
>> We apologize for this issue and are working with the Tools Team to
>> correct the system before it is put back online again.
> 
> thanks, alexa.  these things happen, and i won't even demand a refund :)
> sympathies for the pain.
> 
> < micro-management = off >
> 
> i really appreciate technical details.  there are still a few operators
> left in the ietf community, and we try to learn from our oopsies.  a
> deeper post mortem would even be welcome as many of us are also trying
> to deal with dmarc hell.  you run a medium scale mail operation and any
> lessons you share are appreciated.
> 
> randy
>