On Fri, Mar 06, 2009 at 09:17:26PM -0700, Neale Pickett wrote: > Premysl Hruby <dfe...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I had saved one bounce message mlmmj received from your MX, and it > > looks like your MX is acting very strangely (bounce message attached > > to this email).
thanks for looking into this. > > Wow, his MTA (or maybe MUA) is sending out a delivery status > notification, saying that the message was delivered. I didn't think any > MTAs actually did that, it can create many problems (like the current > one). > > Joerg, you should check your mail client to see if it's sending out > delivery status notifications (DSNs). What's happening is that your > mail client, or your mail server, is responding back to the message I presume, it's our IMAP server in central IT. I'll forward your message. I'm using `mutt' (which at least claims to suck less than other mail clients) and AFAICS should have nothing to do with the delivery notification, right? > saying "I got it!" mlmmj (the list software used at suckless.org, which > I happen to have contributed to) treats any response to the envelope > sender address as a bounced message. naive question: would it harm if mlmmj would treat the DSN has harmless/irrelevant instead of 'bounced'? > > I'm guessing there's some sender on the list who requests delivery > status notifications on their outbound messages, and this is why you > only see the bounces occasionally. I start to get the picture. > > I'll refrain from expounding on my opinion of DSNs. Check the Internet > if you're curious. I always am. thanks again, joerg
