On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Nix wrote:
Guys,
I was just wondering if anyone else gets these messages occasionally?? Now, this email address/domain is hosted at hispeed.com who are a pretty large hosting company. When I first got one of these messages, I raised a help desk ticket with them, but they could find anything wrong. Likewise the second time. This is now the 4th time I have received this message in as many months from the SuSE mailing list. Does anyone have any clue what is going on?
Looks simple enough. Whenever you send a message to suse-security, you get bounces, because of e-mail addresses that no longer exist or mailboxes that are full. The bounce notifications are sent by the mailer-daemon (look at the second message you included, it was sent by mailer-daemon@lists.suse.com). However, some mailservers are configured to reject messages from "mailer-daemon" because these are usually error messages or away notifications. Not smart policy in my book, but still. So the bounce notifications that are sent to you may be bounced themselves (oh irony ;-)). You can check this with your ISP, or just try for yourself to send a message as "mailer-daemon" from somewhere. The last check message was from suse-security-help, so that is let through. Hope this helps, Stefan