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Investigate intermittent errors when adding domains that support MTA-STS.

Open sydneyli opened this issue 6 years ago • 4 comments

Initially reported at EFForg/starttls-everywhere#146:

When I'm trying to submit my domain with an MTA STS policy at https://starttls-everywhere.org/add-domain/ I get the following error:

"Domain does not correctly implement MTA-STS."

The error comes from an API endpoint at https://starttls-everywhere.org/api/queue

I am not aware that anything is wrong with my MTA-STS setup. I also would strongly suggest to provide more meaningful error messages.

sydneyli avatar Sep 24 '19 01:09 sydneyli

I'm having the same issue, anything I can do?

Sh4d1 avatar Sep 29 '19 13:09 Sh4d1

I'm having the same issue, anything I can do?

@Sh4d1 Could you send more details to [email protected] ? Just the domain would suffice for now.

sydneyli avatar Sep 30 '19 16:09 sydneyli

I can no longer reproduce this. But I have a suspicion.

Trying it out with another domain I learned that I first have to run the "checker" on the start page. I guess the error came from previously cached information.

I feel however that this is a poor design. The frontend should automatically run the checker if needed and make sure no outdated results are cached.

hannob avatar Oct 04 '19 12:10 hannob

Ah, that's correct-- the form endpoint fetches cached information for the time being instead of conducting a new scan. That shouldn't be too difficult to fix!

sydneyli avatar Oct 04 '19 16:10 sydneyli