Just a follow-up to this. I have also noticed I seem to be missing some other regular newsletters and an email which was sent to me took several days to get through - and probably wouldn't have if the sending mail server doesn't try for up to 5 days!
I have lodged a support ticket with Servers Austalia - so we'll see what they come up with. The person who sent me the email initially got an error message back (see below) - does this tell me what/where the problem is? > > Hi Neil > > Here is the message I got. > > Steph > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mail Delivery System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 11:10 AM > To: Hill, Stephanie > Subject: Delayed Mail (still being retried) > > This is the Postfix program at host calm-dmz-4.calm.wa.gov.au. > > #################################################################### > # THIS IS A WARNING ONLY. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. # > #################################################################### > > Your message could not be delivered for 24.0 hours. > It will be retried until it is 5.0 days old. > > For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster> > > The Postfix program > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: host possumology.com[210.14.110.130] said: 451 > Could > not complete sender verify callout (in reply to RCPT TO command) > Any feedback on this would be good - I'll let the list know what Servers Australia come back with. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************************** on 1/6/07 6:33 PM, Neil Houghton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Reg, > > No, unfortunately it's not spam filtering. I have the spam setting at > internode set very weak and at present no messages are being held, in any > case (I think) that would only apply to my [EMAIL PROTECTED] email > account (which I don't really use). > > Having recently going through the pain of changing all my email > subscriptions etc from my old bigpond address I'd decided to avoid this in > the future by using email accounts associated with my own domain (and so > independent of whichever ISP I choose to use from time to time). > > At present the mail setup at my [EMAIL PROTECTED] email accounts are set > to flag possible spam but still forward them on - I was going to experiment > with different spam level settings before actually setting it to hold back > spam. > > What I still don't know though is how to tell where the problem is - the > possumology account not receiving the WAMUG posts for some reason or me > being unable to retrieve the mail from the possumology mail server over my > internode connection - if it was an ongoing problem, I would think I could > test this by logging onto the possumology mail server from another > computer/ISP but since it was only a temporary or intermittant problem it > seems that tracking it down could be very difficult. > > Thanks for the suggestion though. > > Cheers > > > Neil > -- > Neil R. Houghton > Albany, Western Australia > Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > on 1/6/07 5:22 PM, Reg Whitely at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi Laurie and Neil >> >> I haven't had any problems with WAMUG or Internode. It's worth noting >> that Internode has a variable scale of spam protection. you can log >> in and check what's being filtered, adjust the filter and enter >> specific email addresses to filter or let through. Maybe worth a check. >> >> Reg >> >> On 01/06/2007, at 8:05 am, Laurie McDonald wrote: >> >>> Neil >>> >>> Noticed that as I read I saw the word 'internode' appeared in Reg >>> Whitely's post on this subject. >>> >>> Just wondering if he had similar problems? >>> >>> Also I have my email set up so that all spam goes straight through >>> to the junk 'bag' and I need to check it weekly to be sure good >>> messages don't get sent there in miss-sorting. Could be an error in >>> my machine or at iinet. But I don't know that I have lost anything, >>> only miss-sorts at about the same time you mention. >>> >>> Laurie >>> >>> >>> On 31/05/2007, at 8:25 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: >>> >>>> ...SNIPPED... >>> >>>> Anyway, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to find out >>>> what might >>>> have happened to the missing posts or how to check if any other >>>> mail went >>>> astray (I suspect this is a hopeless task but, then again, the >>>> ingenuity of >>>> the WAMUG list never fails to amaze me!) >>>> >>>> >>>> TIA >>>> >>>> >>>> Neil >>>> >>>> By the way, I'm also owner of a couple of Yahoo groups and have >>>> noticed >>>> recently that there seems to be more instances of other people >>>> missing our >>>> messages (including myself) though these tend to be more >>>> intermittent. I >>>> sometimes wonder if this is all a sign of a general malaise with >>>> the email >>>> system buckling under the weight of spam? >>>> -- >>>> Neil R. Houghton >>>> Albany, Western Australia >>>> Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 >>>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>>> on 31/5/07 1:59 PM, Matthew Healey at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 31/05/2007, at 11:30 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> So my test post obviously got to WAMUG but never made it back to >>>>>> me. >>>>>> >>>>>> Also I still can't check what I missed because the archive link >>>>> >>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>>>> >>>>> Try this one instead. >>>>> >>>>> - matt >>>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
