Fwd: Your e-mail message has been rejected

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Jan 9 17:57:50 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 00:33 +0800, HaJo Schatz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:34 -0500, Marc M wrote:
> > How did this bounce?   It went through eventually.  Is it getting held
> > up on the server and then manually allowed through?
> 
> It made it well to the list. But the list distributed it to all of it's
> subscribers and at one of them it bounced. The reply came back to you
> straight -- that's how the list is set-up to avoid bounces coming back
> into the list and again being distributed to many people.

On the contrary, the list is set up to route genuine bounces to <fedora-
list-bounces at redhat.com>, where the list manager can deal appropriately
with them, e.g. by unsubscribing persistently bouncing addresses. This
person's spam filter was completely and utterly broken, bouncing mail to
the header sender address instead of the envelope sender address.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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