I halfway "get" DNS and SMTP and all that but I am not sufficiently an expert to debate with someone who thinks they are. Here is the server log supplied by my ISP for one of the bounces:
Feb 20 10:51:42 mailfe qmail: 1455994302.150110 new msg 393337 (faf14e4e-d802-11e5-9c96-00505681fcd5) Feb 20 10:51:42 mailfe qmail: 1455994302.150142 info msg 393337: bytes 2243 from <charl...@mcn.org> qp 5036 uid 64011 Feb 20 10:51:42 mailfe qmail: 1455994302.150151 starting delivery 826049: msg 393337 to remote ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu Feb 20 10:52:42 mailfe qmail: 1455994362.370707 delivery 826049: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/_130.160.0.24 :_Timeout_connecting/ Feb 20 10:58:22 mailfe qmail: 1455994702.288494 starting delivery 826471: msg 393337 to remote ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu Feb 20 10:59:22 mailfe qmail: 1455994762.586935 delivery 826471: deferral: Sorry,_I_wasn't_able_to_establish_an_SMTP_connection._(#4.4.1)/_130.160.0.24 :_Timeout_connecting/ Feb 20 11:18:22 mailfe qmail: 1455995902.097412 starting delivery 828305: msg 393337 to remote ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu Feb 20 11:18:22 mailfe qmail: 1455995902.177151 delivery 828305: failure: Sorry,_I_couldn't_find_any_host_named_listserv.ua.edu._(#5.1.2)/ Feb 20 11:18:22 mailfe qmail: 1455995902.201043 bounce msg 393337 qp 3913 Feb 20 11:18:22 mailfe qmail: 1455995902.201068 end msg 393337 Charles ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN