Re: Re: Mail delivery failure

Darren Salt <ds-Ym6Ivm/Ks7B65+NM0QMiFAbYiX8G1TQY9dF7HbQ/[email protected]> Thu, 04 Mar 2004 20:52:12 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.info-zip
Message-ID <4C8A9064A9%[email protected]>
I demand that Greg Roelofs may or may not have written...

> Christian wrote:
>> I have tried to send a message directly to Darren Salt, using the address
>> as supplied by his last two posting to the Info-ZIP mailing list. However,
>> I got back a "Mail Delivery Error" message (see quoting below).

>> What could have happened? What should I do to get my mails delivered
>> correctly?

> I've gotten similar bounces in the past; it seems fairly clear that there's
> a completely anal-retentive spam filter on his end, and I'm not sure it's
> worth the bother to figure it out. (Definitely not for me, anyway.)

I'm (somewhat) interested; could you forward the relevant bits of the bounce
messages, if you still have them, to my Zap address (see .sig)?

> It might have to do with a difference between the envelope address and the
> From: line, but that's so common and innocuous--and has been for close to a
> decade, if not longer--that there's simply no excuse for bounces on account
> of it.

True. Were it that, I probably wouldn't be replying to your message with this
:-)

> I couldn't think of any other likely reasons, though.

</AOL>.

FWIW, I see nothing with envelope-from @t-online.de or @pobox.com in my logs
(covering the last 9 days or so)...

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