At 7:32 AM -0700 2003/08/02, JC Dill wrote:
This is a big clue that the MTA is improperly configured and is trying to deliver to the AOL and Hotmail servers messages for more recipients than those systems allow - triggering anti-spam filtering on the recipient MTA at AOL and Hotmail. The messages are then bounced.
A properly written MTA should automatically handle issues like this and re-split the envelopes as necessary. Sendmail will do this, as will postfix. Dunno about Exim.
I think the problem lies somewhere with a locally screwed up MTA which periodically won't respond at all, or can't get to its local DNS, so stuff bounces when it shouldn't. But I can't be sure.
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