Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 09:41:06 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: gpalmer@FreeBSD.org (Gary Palmer) Cc: faulkner@asgard.bga.com, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SNAP over enthernet. Message-ID: <199605080741.JAA14007@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3038.831491706@palmer.demon.co.uk> from Gary Palmer at "May 7, 96 06:55:06 pm"
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As Gary Palmer wrote: > > The recipient's MS Mail system has not delivered your message & has > > provided the following reason: <Error Executing MS Mail External> > > I've been getting thse too. It just means someone is subscribed to > -questions and has screwed up. No, it basically means that someone is subscribed to questions but has a broken mailer. (That's no surprise however, after seeing the MS word there...) Mailers are supposed (by RFC-822 and ff.) to send delivery failure notices to the envelope sender address, not the message From or Reply-To address. This way, our great postmaster would have seen it instead of you. (And once he saw too many of them in a row caused by one particular destination address, he's usually going to remove the offender from the lists.) If i'm getting a mail like this, i usually: . forward it to Jonathan, so he knows about it, and . complain at the postmaster of the offending site about his broken mailer. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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