[78-L] Recent bouncing emails and shutdowns

[Eugene Hayhoe]

Thanks for the update Ron, I'll hang in there....
Gene

> Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 22:25:23 -0400
> From: dlennick at sympatico.ca
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Recent bouncing emails and shutdowns
> 
> A couple of weeks ago I received a bounce-back "for policy reasons" message and 
> had no idea what it meant. It happened once or twice, didn't occur again. But 
> I've been getting the "reject" thing frequently, and on both addresses (I use 
> Sympatico and Yahoo since a few years ago, it made sense to have a backup 
> address for 78-L). I am also getting double and sometimes triple e-mails within 
> a few minutes from many sources, but only on Sympatico which is rerouted from 
> Bell Mail (the doubles show up there and are forwarded).
> 
> dl
> 
> On 5/1/2014 9:10 PM, Ron Fial wrote:
> > Some 78-L users have had their out-going email from the 78-l LIST stopped recently.
> >
> > If the 78-L server gets too many bounces when sending you emails from the 78-L list,it shuts you down and sends you a message.   This is for efficiency reasons, its crazy to queue up many emails and to keep re-trying to send them if they are always rejected, after a while there are 100's waiting to be delivered
> >
> > The affected seem to have ISPs in three doamins: live.com, hotmail.com and yahoo.com, or else whose emails are relayed via those domains to other sub-domains.
> >
> > The 78-L logs show this delivery problem affecting the following members, perhaps there are a few others, just searched the last 48 hours of /var/log/mail:
> >
> >         dlennick, BobT78,  dnjchi,  jfleming63,
> >         ehayhoe, backden,  soundthink and mchester.
> >
> > The messages are being rejected for 'policy reasons', and I have not yet discovered 'exactly' what that means.
> >
> > I just started investigating an hour ago when D. Lennick gave me a heads-up email.  May need a few phone calls to get to the bottom of this.
> >
> > Regards,
> >      Ron Fial   78-L list manager
> >
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