The Thursday 2003-12-04 at 07:51 -0800, Bernd wrote:
I have just received my second 'Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender' in the last two days. Not normally odd. Sometimes I mistype or have an old e-mail address for someone. Yet this one is VERY strange!!!
That is because you write few mail to the list O:-)
<dorin@localhost.linux.local>: host localhost[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in processing, id=06674-10, virus_scan FAILED: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE (in reply to end of DATA command)
Ah, yes, I know that one.
spamassasin or Antivir setup. This is taken care of through my ISP. I get the occassional spam that makes it through, but I just delete it and go on with my life. This one really disturbs me!!!
Don't be. It is a normal bounce from a misconfigured SuSE linux system by someone subscribed to this list, but who misconfigured something in his/her setup, and it bounces back to you - if you look carefully, you will see that it is an email you wrote to the list that is bouncing back. In fact, his virus check is acting up: |> Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host localhost[127.0.0.1] said: 451 4.5.0 Error in |> processing, id=21561-10, virus_scan FAILED: NO VIRUS SCANNERS AVAILABLE (in |> reply to end of DATA command)
HELP!!! How can this be stopped at the source???
By forwarding one of them, complete, to the "-owner" address for the list - after you check, reading carefully, that indeed is a bounce from a list member. You don't need to do that now, because at least I did so, and the owner took manual action - ie, he had to remove him from the list. Unfortunately, the bounces are five days old (in hold), so even if he is unsubscribed there will be more of these comming till the queue is emptied or he notices and solves the problem - without writing to the list, of course. If he is reading, he should dissable antivirus checking. By the way, this means that our postfix (for most of us) is configured to bounce back to the sender, and not to the envelope header. This would be an interesting question for some one who knows about that. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson