Outlook Express 6 on WinXP and this list

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2016-04-07 at 02:11 +0300, Vangelis forthnet wrote:
> > Just tried posting to the list using Thunderbird 
> > but got the same bounce response as in OE6
> > 
> > <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> > This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.      
> > 
> > Delivery to the following recipients was aborted after 25 second(s):
> > 
> >  * get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org
> > 
> > Reason: The following message to get_iplayer at lists.infradead.org was 
> > undeliverable.The reason for the problem:  550-Verification failed 
> > for 
> > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> > (snip)

That's a different issue. When a remote mail server attempts to deliver
a message to us, we check whether we *could* deliver a bounce message
to it, if we can't actually deliver their message to its final
destination.

In this case, we discover that we couldn't. It's a common spammer trick
to send messages from invalid non-existent addresses. So we say 'no
thank you' to the incoming message, because verifying the sender
address failed.

Without the specific address, it's hard to diagnose further. Perhaps
the sender misconfigured his address in setting up Thunderbird, or
perhaps there's another problem somewhere which means he'd never get
non-delivery notifications from further afield than his own ISP's mail
server?

> > I'm not sure if the list is the best place to sort it out, 
> > that's meant to be for discussions about the usage of GiP. 
> > If I need to, I'll sort out a different email address.
> 
> I won't post d4x's e-mail address in this public list 
> (at least not without his prior consent), but should 
> the list maintainer be inclined to debug this,

Didn't he already give his consent when he posted to the list? It was
going to be visible then...

-- 
dwmw2

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