[BlueOnyx:25361] Re: Email was not accepted because WHOIS lists recent changes — solved!

[Meaulnes Legler @ MailList]

forget it, sorry, I found the issue: the smtp server stalled, I restarted it with `systemctl restart sendmail` and was then confronted with the exasperating certificate mismatch virtualserver_name<>senderserver_name, accepted that and now it works.

best regards

で⊃ Meaulnes Legler
Zurich, Switzerland
+41¦0 44 260-1660


On 18.03.22 14:21, Meaulnes Legler @ MailList wrote:
> this is really strange and never noticed it until today
> 
> I renewed the domain name «domain.tld» at its registrar GoDaddy today. Then I wanted to send an e-mail from «me at domain.tld» to «user at domain.tld» and got the following message from my mail client:
> 
>> Sending of the message failed.
>> An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded:
>> Email was not accepted at this time, because the WHOIS of your domain lists recent changes..
>> Please check the message recipient "user at domain.tld" and try again.
> 
> What the heck? Whois reports the update that occurred today:
> 
>> [Querying whois.publicinterestregistry.net]
>> [whois.publicinterestregistry.net]
>> Domain Name: DOMAIN.TLD
>> Registry Domain ID: D1702817-LROR
>> Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
>> Registrar URL: http://www.whois.godaddy.com
>> Updated Date: 2022-03-18T09:01:23Z    <<--
>> Creation Date: 1998-05-07T04:00:00Z
>> Registry Expiry Date: 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z
>> Registrar Registration Expiration Date:
>> Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
>> Registrar IANA ID: 146
> ...etc...
> 
> but why does this affect sending mails to that freshly updated domain? Sending an e-mail from another domain, as e.g. gmail, to that same address works, but from and to the same domain doesn't.
> 
> /var/log/maillog reports:
> 
>> Mar 18 14:05:25 vs milter-geoip[3469741]: WHOIS_BLOCK: Domain of Sender's Email-Address: domain.tld - Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC - Update: Fri Mar 18 09:01:20 2022 - TimeDiff: WARN: Reg younger than ONE WEEK!
>> Mar 18 14:05:25 vs postfix/smtpd[3827452]: NOQUEUE: milter-reject: RCPT from 238.132.61.188.dynamic.wline.res.cust.swisscom.ch[188.61.132.238]: 541 5.4.1 Email was not accepted at this time, because the WHOIS of your domain lists recent changes.; from=<me at domain.tld> to=<user at domain.tld> proto=ESMTP helo=<[192.168.105.53]> sasl_username=<meaulnes>
> 
> this «TimeDiff: WARN: Reg younger than ONE WEEK!» is odd... anyone can explain?
> 
> Thank you and best regards
> 
> で⊃ Meaulnes Legler
> Zurich, Switzerland
> +41¦0 44 260-1660
> 
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