OT: Bounced Email

[Mark Sapiro]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 07:02:56PM +0100, Drew Marshall wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2009, at 16:44, Johnny Stork wrote:
> 
> >Hmm, ok, but what about these occaisional "probes" I get from a  
> >couple lists?
> >
> >Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
> >users at spamassassin.apache.org mailing list.
> >
> >
> >Messages to you from the users mailing list seem to
> >have been bouncing. I sent you a warning message, but it bounced.
> >I've attached a copy of the bounce message.
> 
> Almost certainly generated because your address generated some form of  
> 4xx error message that was returned to the list server. Do you have  
> grey listing or some form of recipient checking going on? Either of  
> these could cause this sort of probe.


Again, I don't know about ezmlm, but bounces with 4xx status to a
Mailman list are ignored.

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