520337 - Mozilla Messaging tinderboxes should be using MoMo's outbound SMTP instead of MoCo's

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Messaging Graveyard :: Server Operations, defect)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Tonight we separated our inbound mail relays from our outbound mail relays, making them distinct servers.  They used to be on the same pair of boxes.  Mozilla Messaging's tinderboxes were apparently using smtp.mozilla.org for their outbound mail relay.  This accidently worked because the boxes smtp.mozilla.org was pointed at also handled inbound mail for tinderbox.mozilla.org.  Once we separated the inbound from the outbound at about 19:45 PDT this evening, this was no longer true, and smtp.mozilla.org started rejecting mail for tinderbox from MoMo because MoMo was none of a) behind our firewall, b) authenticated, or c) sending mail to a domain handled by smtp.mozilla.org.

For the time being (as of 21:30 PDT), I've added MoMo's netblock to the authorized IP ranges to send outbound via smtp.mozilla.org.  This may be okay to leave like this, but just to give you guys more control over your own situation, your tinderbox machines should probably be using your own outbound mail relay instead of hoping one you don't have control over will magically accept your mail. :)

Any mail sent that way between 19:45 and 21:30 this evening was 554 rejected and probably lost.

Comment 1

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

Ay, thanks for the heads up. The only reason I can think of why they would be delivering to tinderbox that way is cut-n-paste from the original firefox buildbot config I started from.

We have our own outbound SMTP servers indeed, and I will make the necessary changes to make sure buildbot sends out via it. I'll update this bug when I am done, and you should remove that exception permanently.

Thanks for noticing.

Comment 2

[Philippe M. Chiasson (:gozer)]

changeset:   1575:aec36ceb2c73
tag:         tip
user:        Philippe M. Chiasson <[e-mail]>
date:        Sun Oct 04 12:51:52 2009 -0400
summary:     Bug 520337 -  Mozilla Messaging tinderboxes send email via Mozilla Messaging outbound SMTP servers