From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 02:00:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FD537B401 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:00:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.attbi.com (sccrmhc12.attbi.com [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF01443FA3 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 02:00:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsduser@attbi.com) Received: from attbi.com (12-225-141-88.client.attbi.com[12.225.141.88](misconfigured sender)) by attbi.com (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <200306080900070120097hlke>; Sun, 8 Jun 2003 09:00:08 +0000 Message-ID: <3EE2FB16.4040800@attbi.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 02:00:06 -0700 From: K Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doron Shmaryahu References: <200306080853.h588rgTk014252@mail.crc.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2003 09:00:09 -0000 Doron Shmaryahu wrote: > Hi, > > my messages keep getting rejected from freebsd mailing list with the details below: > > The original message was received at Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:46:46 +0200 (SAST) from root@localhost > > ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors ----- freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > (reason: 550 Error: Message content rejected) > > ----- Transcript of session follows ----- > ... while talking to mx1.freebsd.org.: > >>>>DATA >>> > <<< 550 Error: Message content rejected > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable > > > could anyone explain this to me ?? > > doron@home.crc.co.za > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Hmmm, I get these some times from my regular ISP at certain times of the day. What it means is the service is unavailable. It could be anything. A down email server, a down news server or a busy news or mail server. You can confirm this the next time it happens by telnetting to the email server in question and manually trying to send an email to it. HTH