Anybody working on a solution to the mailing list problems (a.k.a JDK-8213225)?

[Langer, Christoph]

Hi all,

some of you might be aware that there exist issues with mails delivered through the OpenJDK mailing lists. Presumably from mail addresses of organizations outside Oracle to other mail addresses outside Oracle.

An issue was raised back in 2018 already by Martin Buchholz [0] but it seems there is no outcome yet and it's hard for me to see in which direction the investigation is going. But it must be kind of important, as it has 26!! watchers to date.

The issue reports that mails would end up in the spam folder although they shouldn't. As long as only that would happen, I could kind of live with it. However, lately I recognized that me (and my colleagues using the SAP mail system) wouldn't receive mails from other parties like google.com [1], datadoghq.com [2] or alibaba-inc.com [3]. There might be others which I'm not aware of.
This is an unacceptable situation, since I wouldn't become aware of some discussions at all or don't get the possibility to reply directly to some mails!

Maybe this complete rejection of mails (rather than accepting these as spam) is due to some recent change in the SAP mail system infrastructure. But to be able to debug it, me and the colleagues from SAP's IT department need some help from folks who run the OpenJDK mailing lists at Oracle. I've already asked for help at ops at o.j.n<mailto:ops at o.j.n> but didn't get any replies. So I'm posting my request again, publicly, on jdk-dev.

Please help with both, the (seemingly SAP specific?) issue of not receiving some mails at all and also the problem of wrongly classifying mails as SPAM.

Desperately looking forward to any help!

Thanks
Christoph

[0] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213225
[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2020-March/065046.html
[2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2020-March/002642.html
[3] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-updates-dev/2020-March/002735.html