[Yaesu] Re: confirm b9b790d76018ff4175f2ba8ee01a9b932dfa2d49

[mikea]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 06:49:05AM -0400, N4AOF wrote:
> Interesting - for two reasons:  1) because my email account is working 
> properly; and 2) because I have still been receiving mail from this list.
> 
> The listserver sends to my arrl.net address, which relays to a Yahoo 
> account, where the mail is picked up as POP3 every five minutes so my 
> mailbox is NEVER full.
> 
> The very same batch of mail that contained the reactivation request also 
> included other mail from this same mail list - as did yesterday's mail and 
> other recent mail.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <yaesu-request at mailman.qth.net>
> To: <n4aof at arrl.net>
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 00:18
> Subject: confirm b9b790d76018ff4175f2ba8ee01a9b932dfa2d49
> 
> 
> >Your membership in the mailing list Yaesu has been disabled due to
> >excessive bounces 

This is typical behavior for a MailMan list sendiong to an account
with effective filtering at SMTP transaction time: the filter rejects
two or three pieces of mail because the mail matches one or more
filtering rules, and MailMan (being stupid about these things) decides
that the account has been deactivated or the mailserver is dead or
something of the sort.

A slightly-smarter implementation would look at the numeric part of
the rejection reason and note that it was the _message_, not the
connection, that was being rejected. *sigh*

This happens to me, on one of the MailMan lists I'm an administrator  
for, about once a week, and I find it intensely frustrating.

I'm in Stockholm this week, Visby (Gotland) next week, and Stockholm 
again week after that, leaving for the States on 22 August.                                                

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin