[Mailman-Users] Is There a list member limitation?

Larry Stone lstone19 at stonejongleux.com
Fri Jan 15 22:17:06 CET 2010


On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Goodman, William wrote:

> I see things like below to users I know didn't receive the email. So you
> first assessment is correct
> "they did receive it but they just can't find it.

Uh no, the message below is a deferral. Postfix keeps retrying until it 
times out at which point is bounced. How long until it times out is a site 
configurable length of time (default five days, I think).

> to=<user at somewhere.com>, relay=mail.somewhere.com[212.137.44.179]:25,
> delay=8.3, delays=0.02/4.4/0.67/3.3, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host
> mail.somewhere.com[212.137.44.179] said: 451 <user at somewhere.com>...
> Requested mail action not taken: mailbox unavailable (in reply to RCPT
> TO command)) Jan 13 15:25:00 my-mailserver postfix/smtp[28262]:
> B405E2D858F

-- Larry Stone
    lstone19 at stonejongleux.com


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