Aha. I thought as much. And indeed, the sender uses an AOL account. Thanks, everyone, for the tips!
Gretchen -----Original Message----- From: John W. Baxter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 12:17 PM To: Mailman Users Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] connection refused by lists. On 11/10/06 7:26 AM, "Patrick Bogen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/10/06, Gretchen at Ladyweave.com | 269-369-1114 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A message to one of our lists didn't go through. Does the error >> message indicate a problem at the server or is it within the program? >> The list seems to be working fine now. Thanks for any advice you can give. >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Deferred: Connection >> refused by lists.cmwd-uua.org. >> Message could not be delivered for 3 hours Message will be deleted >> from queue > > This was a problem with the MTA (e.g., postfix, sendmail, exim, qmail, > or something else) at lists.cmwd-uua.org, OR with whichever server was > trying to talk to it. The latter is probably not the case, but it MAY > be due to a network disruption if everything checks out on the MTA > level. The sending MTA--aside from anything else--has a remarkably short retry limit. There are, for example, a bunch of school districts around here to which they couldn't send mail on weekends as the districts shut their servers down. (The districts we send to most often have stopped doing that.) --John ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
