On Wed, 2026-02-25 at 22:21 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 2/25/26 7:23 PM, Tim via users wrote:
> > On Thu, 2026-02-26 at 08:04 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> > >      I'm getting a message from the Fedora Mailing list
> > > specifying
> > > that a number of bounce messages have been received from my email
> > > address. Here is a sample bounce message:
> > 
> > The wording of that says that your service isn't accepting some
> > mail,
> > rejecting them, "bouncing" them back to the list.  But without
> > seeing
> > some of the bounced messages (in full), it's hard to tell what it
> > doesn't like about them.
> > 
> > We can see it doesn't like something about Patrick's message, but
> > not
> > what it objects to.
> > 
> > For what it's worth, "bouncing" is usually a bad idea.  It's
> > supposed
> > to be done during the intake attempt, aborting the transfer from
> > the
> > sending mail server.  That sending mail server can then act on it
> > appropriately.   Unfortunately, it's often done after the message
> > has
> > actually being accepted, and that is completely wrong...
> 
> You've misinterpreted the message.  This was the mailing list
> attempting 
> to deliver Stephen's message to Patrick.  gmail rejected it, so the 
> mailing list notified Stephen that this happened.

I'm going to explicitly enable the Fedora list server to be treated as
"not spam", and hopefully this will correct the problem, at least as
regards my address. Not really a general solution though.

poc
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