Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 09:23:56PM +0100, [email protected] > wrote: > > Every week bendel sends me a bounce report and every one I've looked > > at contains one of Haines' messages that has been bounced by my ISP. > > But I've no way to know for sure that it's just Haines' messages > > that are getting bounced. > > Presumably it is only the mails from Haines that your ESP rejects as > otherwise bendel would report more to you.
Well I have no way to know, because bendel just sends me one and provides no way that I've found to look at any others. That's what I've asked postmaster and listmaster about. It's an ISP BTW (Internet Service Provider) not an ESP (whatever that is). > > So is there something strange in the way that Haines has his mail > > set up such that it might provoke such a negative response by my > > ISP? > > Is there any clue in the report that bendel gives to you? Sometimes > the SMTP-time rejection does have useful information but a lot of the > time it will just be generic. I don't know; I don't understand what you're suggesting. The current bounce report is at https://lists.debian.org/bounces/PvURBjegyGnI_lBY9zXJNA > Of course even if you do establish what your ESP doesn't like about > bendel's forward of Haines' emails, there may well be nothing that you > or Haines can do about it. It may be something that Haines' ESP is > doing, or something that bendel is doing when it forwards the mail to > your ESP. Well hopefully if I can figure out what the problem is I'll stand some chance of persuading whoever/whatever is responsible to change what they're doing to provoke the rejection. > Thanks, > Andy Cheers, Dave
