* Zdenek Sekera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060906 04:13]: > I got exactly the same message. No explanation, > such messages come occassionally, very annoying. > > ---Zdenek >
This happens to me occasionally, too, but the text of the message seems pretty clear to me. I run my own mail server, though, so perhaps I am more familiar with what it is talking about, so I'll explain. The vim mailing list program, ezmlm, receives a message to the vim mailing list. It then sends it to each subscriber. When it is sending the message to you, it is talking to your ISP's mail server. Your ISP's mail server decides that the message is spam (sometimes why it does this is the big question). Your ISP's mail server rejects the mail during the SMTP conversation (the protocol used to transfer messages from one mail server, ezmlm in this case, to another, your ISP) or it bounces the mail (sends a message to the ezmlm server saying the message was not delivered) after the SMTP conversation is complete. It is actually common practice to send bounce messages for "suspect" mail even when the message is actually delivered (or put in the recipient's spam folder). The ezmlm server, when it sees several bounces or rejections from the same email address, decides it better investigate. It sends the message you see (Subject: ezmlm warning) telling you that some messages to you have bounced. If that message doesn't bounce, then the ezmlm server ignores the bounces and continues to deliver vim list mail to you normally. If that message does bounce, then it sends one more message to you. If that second warning bounces also, you are removed from the vim mailing list. The purpose of the probes is to be able to automatically clean up dead email addresses from the vim mailing list. If you receive the message, then you can safely ignore it. However, if mail from the list stops soon after receiving such a mail, then perhaps your ISP delivered the message but also bounced it; you should then check with your ISP. ...Marvin