Emails Bouncing - Please Help!!

[jdow]

From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10 at charter.net>

> On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 15:59 -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:
>> Andy Green wrote:
>> > Steven Pasternak wrote:
>> >> Hi! I am on a bunch of mailing-lists (this one, kde-linux, and 
>> >> suse-linux-e), and I have gotten a message from each about my 
>> >> messages bouncing and my account being suspended. I use thunderbird 
>> >> 1.5.0.2 on FC5. I have almost 40,000 emails from June '04 saved. 
>> >> Could I have some sort of virus? Does linux GET viruses? I really 
>> >> don't want to be permanently canned from the lists, so could anyone 
>> >> help? Thanks!
>> >
>> > The list server software has noticed it has been unable to deliver a 
>> > bunch of mails to your mailbox.  To stop wasting time and bandwidth 
>> > trying to repeatedly deliver every message forever hopelessly again 
>> > and again, as a safety measure the list software disables your account 
>> > temporarily and tries to notify you.
>> >
>> > Examine your mail logs to find out what happened, or if you simply had 
>> > extended downtime, just re-enable your account on each list.
>> >
>> > -Andy
>> >
>> I WAS gone for a week in Florida over spring break; could that be the 
>> reason?
> If your mail box filled up and bounced incoming mail it certainly could
> be.
> 
> To avoid that, if I am going to be gone for a time I usually unsubscribe
> from the lists, then resubscribe when I return.

I just have an ISP that allows gigabyte and more mailboxes.... (I am my
own "real" mail ISP. I fetch it from Earthlink and store it here. Loren
keeps emails on the servers. I don't. So all 4+ GiB I have stored is no
problem at all. There's another 287 GiB where that 4 came from. But I
do not expect to use it ALL for only email.)

{^_-}