I have been lurking here for quite a while learning
whilst I spend the evenings reading various qmail docs
so
that when I do get my new box configured and running
qmail I hopefully won't need to ask anything.
BUT I did get a message today from the list daemon that
said:
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Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list.
Messages to you seem to have been bouncing. I've
attached a copy of
the first bounce message I received.
If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If
the probe bounces,
I will remove your address from the mailing list,
without further notice.
I've kept a list of which messages bounced from your
address. Copies of
these messages may be in the archive. To get message
12345 from the
archive, send an empty note to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here are the message numbers:
58201
--- Below this line is a copy of the bounce message I
received.
Return-Path: <>
Received: (qmail 15605 invoked for bounce); 29 Nov 2000
03:06:15 -0000
Date: 29 Nov 2000 03:06:15 -0000
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: failure notice
Hi. This is the qmail-send program at
muncher.math.uic.edu.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the
following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it
didn't work out.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
139.130.242.11 failed after I sent the message.
Remote host said: 552 Requested mail action aborted:
storage allocation or incoming size limit exceeded
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I looked at the logs on the server here and found that
there had been one attempt to get this message through
and that it said that the connection was broken (i.e. no
QUIT was received) and the time was a week before the
bounce date.
So the question is - Does qmail by default leave a
person trying to send mail waiting for a week before
they
get any notification that an attempt has failed? Even if
the return code suggests a permanent failure?
This seems more than a little derelict even if it was
due to a typo in an address and very harsh when there is
nothing wrong with the message.
Is there a way to change this behaviour?
BTW the server concerned had no limits set for the
mailbox and had 667MB of free space at the time (and
now)
so I am pursuing that issue elsewhere.
TIA
In the beginning was The Word
and The Word was Content-type: text/plain
The Word of Rod.
