2 delivery failures for mail sent to the list

[Nigel Henry]

On Tuesday 19 September 2006 22:17, Tom Anderson wrote:
> I too only get this behavior on this list.  I concur that it is
> incorrect.  Only the list server ought to receive undeliverable messages
> in order to remove those addresses from the list.  List members do not
> care who else is subscribed or not.  This should be remedied.
>
> Tom

Hi Tom. I'm glad someone agrees with me, as this is quite annoying, and as I 
said a waste, although a small waste, of bandwidth.

that problem aside, Bogofilter works really well. and I'm not knocking that.

Nigel.
>
> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > On Tuesday 19 September 2006 20:02, Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >>On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:56:20 +0200
> >>
> >>Nigel Henry wrote:
> >>>All "@" have been changed to "(at)" by me.
> >>>
> >>>Any suggestions as to what is going on here?
> >>
> >>These happens on every mailing list.
> >>
> >>In effect when you post to a list you or sending an email
> >>to Every member of that list.
> >>If, for whatever reason, delivery fails for any member
> >>you will receive a undeliverable notice for each failure.
> >>
> >>Most, including I, set-up a filter rule in their MUA
> >>to not be bothered by these notices.
> >>
> >>
> >>    Charles
> >
> > Thanks for that Charles. It doesn't make much sense though. I'm on some
> > quite high volume mailing lists, and this sort of thing doesn't happen. I
> > post to the list, get a confirmation in my inbox that the posting has
> > been received by the list, and thats that. The only time I've had mail
> > returned is when I used to use the "reply all" function on Kmail. Some
> > folks don't receive mail sCC'd to them, so it ends up being returned.
> >
> > This is all a bit academic, but bear with me please.
> >
> > I send a post to a mailing list, and I know my ISP using this address has
> > some problems (they seem to be favourable to spam). Lets say there is no
> > blocking of posting to the list. My post arrives at the list. My part in
> > this procedure is now at an end. The list now sends me a confirmation,
> > which I receive in my inbox that the post has been received by the list.
> > The list, not me, also sends out to all those subscribed to the list an
> > e-mail of the posting I have made to the list. So far so good, but quite
> > why I, as the sender of the post to the list should be notified that
> > certain persons subscribed to the list are unaccessable (for whatever
> > reason) doesn't make sense.
> >
> > Perhaps the mailing list needs fixing. After all, this is a list to to
> > with filtering spam, and each time I post to the list I am getting 2
> > emails back, which are to all intents and purposes spam, and contributing
> > to bandwidth wastage.
> >
> > Enough of the rant. I don't post to the list much, so if it can't be
> > fixed, I'll put up with it.
> >
> > Thanks again for the reply.
> >
> > It will be interesting to see if I get another 2 undeliverables when I
> > send this reply. lol.
> >
> > Nigel.
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