Matthew's Journal

This morning, all my LJ pages have a little banner saying "To gain access to all LiveJournal features you should validate your email", and furthermore, I am unable to comment on even my *own* posts. This is an email address that I've not changed in ages.

Also, LJ says "Non-authenticated email address: You must have an authenticated email address in order to post to another account" when I'm

I go looking, when the "resend validation email" button doesn't achieve anything - while my email provider is very picky, I have it whitelisted to allow anything from *.livejournal.com to my LJ address.

Turns out email is coming from 208.93.1.33, which a) resolves to a hostname with invalid characters in (lj_notifications.livejournal.com, and underscores aren't allowed in hostnames) b) is on at least one email blacklist http://www.spamhaus.org/query/ip/208.93.1.33

a) means that it doesn't match my whitelisting exemption (since the relevant bit of infrastructure will only resolve to valid hostnames), and b) means that my email provider isn't going to talk to it any time soon.

So, well done LJ, you've buggered up your email setup, and externalised the cost onto me.

ETA: they seem to have resolved the not-being-able-to-post issue now (hence this!), and have now decided my email address is validated again...