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Greetings, list-owner, I concur with your sentiments 100% ;-) Our messages are a lot better than they used to be, but there is still room for improvement, both in the conciseness and in the processing. Thanks for the note. CSuite-Tech, could we put this on the list for improvements? Ed Dyer Assistant Postmaster <postmaster@chebucto.ns.ca> Chebucto Community Network On Fri, 14 Mar 1997, Jasper van Beusekom wrote: > Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 21:11:00 -0400 > From: Jasper van Beusekom <jvbeusek@beus.demon.nl> > To: postmaster@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: RFC 821 (SMTP) incompatible bounces > > > Dear Postmaster, > > I wanted to report that your system is producing bounces that are > not RFC 821/822 compatible (and thus illegal on the internet). > > Bounces should go to the Return-Path: instead to the From: field. > > msg continued beneath the snip... > > >>>snip>>> > > Received: from chebucto.ns.ca by maelstrom.stjohns.edu (LSMTP for > OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <10.77235D45@maelstrom.stjohns.edu>; Wed, > 12 Mar 1997 7:50:06 -1300 Received: by chebucto.ns.ca id > <85749(3)>;Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:51:33 -0400 To: Stolen Youth-- a > support list for young people <S-YOUTH@MAELSTROM. STJOHNS.EDU> > From: The Post Office <postmaster@chebucto.ns.ca> Sender: > mailer-daemon@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Delivery problems with your mail > Message-Id: <97Mar12.085133ast.85749(3)@chebucto.ns.ca> Date: Wed, 12 > Mar 1997 08:51:32 -0400 > > The following message has been generated automatically by a computer. > > Unfortunately the automated postoffice has been unable to deliver your > message. > > Please check the destination address carefully for typos -- one wrong > letter is all it takes -- this is the most common reason for returned > mail. > > A technical description of the problems encountered is included in > this message. > > It is hoped that this will assist you in isolating the problem, but if > you cannot, you can request help from a human by replying to this > message, including the first part which describes the errors and the > top part of your message that includes the addresses from your > original message. You can delete the content of the original message > and should do so if it is at all private. Without a copy of this > error report, it will be very difficult to provide any assistance! > > > > <local - ac415 32767>: expired after 1 hour, problem was: message > write to "/var/spool/mail/ac415" failed: Disc quota exceeded > > ---------- Original Message ---------- > > <<<snip<<< > > This could result in major problems for your system, when a user has > his mailbox full...starts bouncing to a mailinglist...which starts > distributing this error to its subscribers...one of which the user > with the full mailbox is...that bounces again...and so on, and so on. > > I'm happy that the lsoft-listserv has an implimentation to prevent > the dumb mailers as the one you use from reaching our subscribers, > but there are a lot other system (auto-reply and other mailinglist > software) that won't prevent this circle from going on and on and on > distributing msgs that are slightly different each time. > > I hope you take approprate actions to prevent this from happening > again. And while your are changing that part, you'd better also > have a look at the layout of the error message, so that it fits the > standards as written in the RFCs. That would save out a lot of all > the listserv-listowners time. > > Looking forward to your answer... > > Jasper van Beusekom > > > > --__________________________________________________________-- > > Jasper van Beusekom http://www.beus.demon.nl/ > Lifeguard soc. Katwijk http://www.hol.nl/~krb > Helpdesk Freenet Leiden http://www.dsl.nl/support > Co-owner s-youth and rsdhope at listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu > Owner r-brigade at listserv@clyde.hol.nl > --__________________________________________________________-- > + Ed Dyer
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