On Saturday 08 February 2003 08:59 pm, Benjamin Pflugmann wrote: > Hi. Thank you for taking the time to add some clarification to this discussion. I have been wondering about this for some time.
> > > In this case, sympa cannot do the reverse lookup and > > quietly rejects the message. > > Well, not exactly quietly. You did get a bounce, didn't you? The > reason it takes 4-5 days to bounce is because your mail server > (@adelphia.net) handles it as temporary failure and retries for some > time before giving up (that's perfectly okay, because most times this > error will be due to some DNS problems). I meant quiet from the standpoint that sympa does not respond, but the isp finally gives up. But yes, you are right. > > I am also a subscriber to Adelphia PowerLink and I cannot use my > > @adelphia.net address to send to the list. I must use a POP3 > > account I have on my professional association. > > Although I am no specialist regarding this issue, I consider it a > misconfiguration of adelphia.net DNS entries. You should probably > report the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see what they say. You may be correct on this issue, and I might try that. > > Another problem with Adelphia specifically is the way they route their > > mail. He may have been allowed by sympa to subscribe, but then the smtp > > server he was using changed because of Adelphia's load balancing, > > rotation or network problems, which sympa does not like. > > Really? The mailing list should not care at all which way a mail is > routed. I did not notice any problem when my mail routing changed last > November. I was speculating here, so I could easily (probably) be wrong. > specifically who else is the culprit. If not, then I would seriously > consider another provider, because you cannot know what else they Not an option as they are the only broadband provider at my address :-( Thanks again. -- Greg
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