Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Thursday 2006-05-04 at 09:17 -0500, Jim Flanagan wrote:
: 24.238.237.18 failed after I sent the message. Remote host said: 550 Error: improper use of 8-bit data in message body ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That should be the reason. Have a look at the settings of your MUA (email client).
Certainly not the MUA, but the whole server setup.
I don't understand what you mean here. I did notice that part you quoted, but I don't know what it means. What bearing would my email client have on a message being bounced by apparently my server? These are not messages I've sent.
No, you did not sent it. When ezmlm finds a problem sending to you (bounces) it sends a probe, a test email. It is this test email, I think, which failed.
I think it was the two messages 267899 and 268109 that failed. I don't think ezmlm ever got as far as sending a probe, because the warning Jim is asking about was delivered successfully. In the extract above 'I' refers to Suse's server and 'Remote host' refers to the server belonging to Jim (or his ISP). Specifically, it says that Jim's server objected to the content of message 267899 ('the first bounce message' mentioned in Jim's original message) which was from Kai Ponte on 15 April at 21:20 AFAICT. Ulf Rasch wrote:
It means that the message was rejected because the body text contained 8-bit text without the 8-bit MIME content encoding information. Nevertheless it is not recommended to has that option enabled on a general purpose mail server as it might block legitimate mail.
I think you're probably right here. I suspect Jim's server objected to some character in Kai's message and I think you're right that having a server configured to be so strict about what it accepts is probably asking for trouble.
If you didn't send this email in the first place then I guess someone is spamming with your email address.
I don't think there's any question of spamming, though. There's no suggestion anywhere that any of these messages are forged or have questionable content that I can see. Cheers, Dave