On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 01:42:33AM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:14:48AM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:37:21PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:15:19PM +0100, Wouter de Vries wrote: > > > > I really wonder what this is about ... I use fetchmail in combination > > > > with exim and procmail. > > > > > > Could you explain what it is you don't understand? > > > > > > [snip...] > > > > I get these bounce mails regularly and I wonder what they are and > > whether there is something I can do about it. > > Does this happen shortly after responding to a message on this list? If > so, some people have their mailers misconfigured in such a way that a > certain header (I forget which at the moment, Sender: ??) causes your > mailer to try to send the message to such a person, but the address is > not valid (usually only a local address). This bounce will come > directly from your system (exim).
Well, the strange thing is that I have nothing to do with the message or the sender. I did not reply to the message. The only connections is that I also am subscribed to the mailing list. My account is hosted on a university machine running 'QUALCOMM Pop server derived from UCB (version 2.1.4-R3)'. Wouter
