linux-kernel - Re: patch mail rejected by vger.kernel.org

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Date:	Thu, 11 Aug 2016 06:59:04 +0000
From:	Eric Wong <e@...24.org>
To:	Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@....ac.cn>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: patch mail rejected by vger.kernel.org

Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@....ac.cn> wrote:
> Hi,
>   Yesterday, I cced 5 patches to linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org using send-email, but all of them were
> rejected by mail server at vger.kernel.org as follows: 
>   "Dear yizhouzhou@....ac.cn, Your message to linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org was rejected by the recipient domain. The error that the other server returned was: " SMTP error, RCPT TO: 451 4.7.1 Hello [159.226.251.20], for recipient address <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> the policy analysis reported: zpostgrey: connect: Connection refused". Your original message is included as attachment."
>   I have successfully posted to linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org previously. And maintainers have received my patch
> correctly yesterday. Do you know what is going on?

+Cc: some folks who may actually know what's going on...

It looks like the zpostgrey instance goes down and is not
restarting.  I've noticed it on the git@...r list a few times
recently, too; but I'm not sure if any messages got rejected
for git@...r (we get a lot fewer messages than LKML).