In order for me to give you anything more than the speculation below, you'll have to tell me more about how your ISP account works.
What it looks like is that your ISP has something configured incorrectly. I would guess that the message to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" didn't really arrive to "digest". Perhaps the message arrived at the machine that your ISP uses to handle brin-l.com, and it tried to figure out what file to store mail for "digest" account/user/file, and it could not find it or maybe there was a permission/security problem for the file, or maybe you need to create a mailbox for digest, or something. Continuing with this scenario, perhaps the mailer (exim) then forwarded the message to "postmaster" or "root" or some default mail account/file, which then ended up in your mailbox. A few things could help clarify this speculation: 1) How does your ISP handle multiple email accounts at your domain? 2) How do you check your email and how do you specify which email account you want? 3) Can you post the full headers of the two emails (the one you sent and the error message)? The most interesting ones are the ones like "Received from .... for ..." On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 07:22:24AM +0200, J. van Baardwijk wrote: > Strange things are happening in e-mail land... > > One of the e-mail aliases in use with the Brin-L.com domain is > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (which forwards to my home account). I recently > subscribed that address to Brin-L, but nothing came through. I tested the > address by sending a message from my home account to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The > message did arrive, but at the same time I also received a message stating: > > >This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim). > > > >A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its > >recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > unknown local-part "digest" in domain "brin-l.com" > > IOW, the message could not be delivered (apparently because the address > does not exist), but at the same time it was in fact delivered (which > proves that the address *does* exist). Huh? > > Does anyone have any idea what may cause this? > > > Jeroen "Nomen Dominii Habeo Ergo Sum" van Baardwijk > > __________________________________________________________________________ > Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com > > > _______________________________________________ > http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
