On Thursday 19 September 2002 6:33 pm, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > Hi. > >> <snip> On Thu 2002-09-19 at 14:24:28 -0600, Charlie M. wrote: > > Just to make that clear, if it was not by now: The reason of such > bounces is that the configuration of the MDA (the local delivery > machine) of a subscriber, i.e. the recipient (or its ISP) is broken. > > The trigger for such bounces may have any reason. I have seen full > mailboxes, deleted accounts, misconfigured firewall, misconfigured DNS > entries, whatever. > > Normally you do not see such bounces, because the mandrake server is > the sender (via the mailing list) and as such should receive such > bounces. Due to some misconfiguration the receiving machine decided to > bounce to the wrong address, namely the "From:" instead of "Sender:" > and that's why people get these annoying messages. At least, AFAIK. ;) > > Have fun, > > Benjamin.
Thanks Benjamin! Insatiable curiosity somewhat ameliorated for the present. The fact that knowledgeable people answer my silly questions/complaints on these mailing lists is just another reason I am so devoted to Mandrake. :-) The addictive nature of v9.0 so far may be another. -- Charlie Edmonton,AB,Canada Registered user 244963 at http://counter.li.org Life -- Love It or Leave It.
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