FYI, it turns out that the biggest reason Yahoo was hoding up my
emails was that my reverse DNS and the name of my mail server didn't
look enough alike. When I changed them to be the same, my backlog
quickly cleared.
I also have a backlog with verizon.net, see
http://blog.kloppmagic.ca/archives/2
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 06:48:43PM -0500, Karl Zander wrote:
> New messages sent to the list get appended to the end of
> the mbox file OK and do display in the archive.
Compare the "From " lines (not From:). I had to fiddle with them with
some of my archives a few years ago when I moved a list
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 06:46:28AM -0500, Jonathan Dill wrote:
> For the sender, there is a very simple solution to "whitelist" his or
> her own e-mail addresses which I have used myself: subscribe the other
> e-mail address then set "Mail delivery" to "Disabled."
Or the admin can add these ad
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:39:55PM -0500, Jonathan Dill wrote:
> I find a lot of stuff by Googling "VS5-MF Excessive unknown recipients",
> apparently Yahoo may be doing something that is not RFC-compliant, so
> your MTA doesn't know that it should stop trying to resend the message:
Interesting
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 05:43:07PM -0500, Jonathan Dill wrote:
> Are you getting explicit REJECT messages from Yahoo! or some other error?
I'm getting 4XX frequently, and occasionally:
7E7E824F81 634 Wed Mar 1 09:03:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(host mx3.mail.yahoo.com[67.28.113.10] said: 451 VS5
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 12:44:36AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> I think there may have been better ways to try to get people to
> focus on answering the technical question and get away from the
> policy issues, but it would also have helped if you had consulted the
> FAQ Wizard and the li
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:04:07PM -0600, Patrick Bogen wrote:
> In all fairness, your comment about your years of
> experience was the first rude thing.
Ah, I see. So unsolicited and unwanted advice is OK, but explaining
why my policy opinions are strongly held is rude? All I was aiming at
was a
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 04:34:18PM -0500, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Greg Lindahl wrote:
>
> > Like most people who've been running mailing lists for 20+ years, I
>
> Funny, I would have guessed this was your first, comming from a marketing
Like most people who've been running mailing lists for 20+ years, I
have strong opinions about list policy. Please address the mechanism
I asked for instead of seeking to discuss the policy issues.
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 12:52:39PM -0800, Dragon wrote:
> Why not disable those notification messages completely and discard the
> incoming messages from nonmembers?
Because I have a lot of users with several email addresses who forget
which one they're subscribed as. I care about every posting.
Yahoo is delaying delivery of mail from my domain because I look like
I'm spamming them -- my machine sends a lot of email to non-existent
Yahoo users. Well, that's because I get a lot of incoming spam from
fake Yahoo accounts to my Mailman, and I have it configured to send
back a "you aren't a mem
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