And another possibility. The recipients themselves may be operating spam filters, for example procmail filters, which screen out messages not apparently addressed to them.
To operate such a filter successfully, exemptions need to be written in for lists. On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:19:58PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote: > There are a few reasons for this. The SPAM filter is valid. I had a similar > problem with majordomo. All email to my recipients at bellsouth.net were > being bounced and unknown user. When I moved the list over to mailman > (and Postfix) the problem was eliminated. > > Another possibility, is that the postfix binaries on Red Hat 7.1 are > broken. There is a FAQ on it. I would suggest that you build postfix from > sources. > > Also, postfix itself has some aggressive SPAM filters. I found several of > my users were not receiving email because of this. We ended up relaxing > the SPAM filters. (I don't think that this is your problem though). > On 26 Nov 2001, at 12:53, David Ball wrote: > > > Hi there > > > > Some of our users never receive messages from the list, despite the fact > > that I can see the message leaving our system as normal. > > > > This always affects the same users, and there are no error messages or > > bounces received by us or them. Messages sent from the console arrive > > correctly, and other bounce messages are received correctly too (ie > > address [EMAIL PROTECTED] is valid, fails to receive mail from the list, but > > receives mail sent directly from the console, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is invalid, and > > returns a bounce when sent from the console, other list members bounces > > etc. are received) > > > > I am using Postfix on rh7.1, and all outgoing mail is relayed via > > smtp.bt.net > > > > I am completely baffled - anyone got any ideas? > > > > DaveB > > > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > > > Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Associate Director > Boston Linux and Unix user group > http://www.blu.org > > ------------------------------------------------------ > Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Wilder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Technical Manager & Editor SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549 Phone: 206-782-8808 Seattle, WA 98155-0549 URL http://embedded.linuxjournal.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
