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Re: Return to sender...(hum long)



> 
> I agree with Harvey  about having a little respect for the efforts donated to the group. Lets
> keep it friendly and professional. 
> 

>  >> my inbox! NIMAS! I get 2-4 of those for every post I make to the list!
> 
> > > and Ilan! poll more often, or use POP/UUCP, whatever.
> 
> >Now, as for the bounces, it's both of our faults.  I have
> >list-maintainer privileges, so I could remove the addresses that
> >bounce.  However, I haven't been mailing to Linux-il so often lately,
> >so I'm not up on which addresses are the offenders (although I suppose
> >I will be after I mail this).  However, I don't want to just go and
> >remove those addresses, because it might just be a temporary outage.

usually the prob

> 
> >So, Dovie - Can your server be set up *not* to reflect those messages
> >back to the sender?  Can you instead just log the undeliverables
> >somewhere & periodically remove them from the list?

I do log them and remove them but most of them just ask to be put back on
the list.  

It wont make much of a difference where it is the problem with most of the
bounced messages is machines that are dial in ppp or slip that some one 
subscribed from his pc in his house and does not get the same ip number
all the time and his host name is something like prov### where # in the 
hostname is the ip that he happens to have gotten this time he loged in.
the second problem it that the service provider is not queueing mail for
these hosts that can't be found.

and the rest are simple host down (machines do go down sometimes)
there is a errors_to: field in the header and most mailers know what 
do with the field and send any problem to me and not the list.
 
dovie

> 
> >Thanks,
> 
> >Harvey
> 
> Yossi B.
> 
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