[Mailman-Users] Dissapearing messages

[Dan Wilder]

And another possibility.  The recipients themselves may be operating
spam filters, for example procmail filters, which screen out messages
not apparently addressed to them.

To operate such a filter successfully, exemptions need to be written
in for lists.

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:19:58PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> There are a few reasons for this. The SPAM filter is valid. I had a similar 
> problem with majordomo. All email to my recipients at bellsouth.net were 
> being bounced and unknown user. When I moved the list over to mailman 
> (and Postfix) the problem was eliminated. 
> 
> Another possibility, is that the postfix binaries on Red Hat 7.1 are 
> broken. There is a FAQ on it. I would suggest that you build postfix from 
> sources. 
> 
> Also, postfix itself has some aggressive SPAM filters. I found several of 
> my users were not receiving email because of this. We ended up relaxing 
> the SPAM filters. (I don't think that this is your problem though).
> On 26 Nov 2001, at 12:53, David Ball wrote:
> 
> > Hi there
> > 
> > Some of our users never receive messages from the list, despite the fact
> > that I can see the message leaving our system as normal.
> > 
> > This always affects the same users, and there are no error messages or
> > bounces received by us or them. Messages sent from the console arrive
> > correctly, and other bounce messages are received correctly too (ie
> > address x at y.z is valid, fails to receive mail from the list, but
> > receives mail sent directly from the console, a at y.z is invalid, and
> > returns a bounce when sent from the console, other list members bounces
> > etc. are received)
> > 
> > I am using Postfix on rh7.1, and all outgoing mail is relayed via
> > smtp.bt.net
> > 
> > I am completely baffled - anyone got any ideas?
> > 
> > DaveB
> > 
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> 
> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Associate Director
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
> http://www.blu.org
> 
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