On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 12:39:18PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > > > >Every few days I get a message from all lists stating that my > >subscription has been disabled due to excessive bouncing. In the email > >that I get I get a link to a URI that I have to click to activate it. > >If I click on the URI with the confirmation string, mailman tells me > >that the the confirmation sting is invalid. I have to login into my > >account to reenable the subscription. > > > >This started happening April 1st. > > > I've been having the exact same problem, but only with the -website and > lfs-dev lists...and I don't have a gmail account.
According to the smtp logs, the problem seems to be that gmail is rejecting viral email (unless it truly is a malformed non-viral attachment which isn't likely). Some people believe viral email should be sanitized and sent. Some don't. I generally agree with the latter point of view, but many ISP's either just sanitize, or do nothing, so no rejects. status=bounced (host gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com[72.14.205.27] said: 552 5.7.0 Illegal Attachment e18si591653qbe And technically, "bounce" in this context is really "reject". Bounces only happen if the receiving server initially accepts the email and then decides not to send it on. This usually causes a MAILER-DAEMON message to be sent to the sender from the receiving smtpd (which can cause huge backscatter problems). SpamAssassin as of late has gotten stupid. It will be sorted as time permits. Can gmail whitelist? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
