From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 29 00:53:51 2004 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 71F8616A4CE for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:53:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AF2543D5E for ; Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:53:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.250] (pool-68-161-115-118.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.115.118]) by pi.codefab.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id iAT0reCk082274 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:53:46 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <41AA7313.1060509@mac.com> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 19:53:39 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremie Le Hen References: <20041125202022.GC15881@muxor.org> In-Reply-To: <20041125202022.GC15881@muxor.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.6 required=5.5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on pi.codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mailing-lists behaviour on bounce 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: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:53:51 -0000 Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > I recently have a problem with my primary mail server and some mails > have bounced today. Now, everything seems to work. I know that > FreeBSD mail servers handle a very large amount of mail addresses, so > I don't expect them to defer bounced mails for the next five days as > classical mail servers usually do. You are confusing the way a 4xx temporary failure is handled versus the way a permanent 5xx error (resulting in a bounce) is handled. The mail configuration will attempt to resend messages if it gets a 4xx. However... > I checked my subscritions on the > Mailman interface on FreeBSD wedsite and my "bounce score" is actually > 1.0. I wonder whether I'm going to get the bounced mails later in the > night or if they are lost forever because of a drastic policy and I'll > have to browse the archives to read them. ...this implies that your mail server generated a 5xx error message, which means "don't attempt to retry delivering this message". What happened after that is normal, rather than the result of some drastic policy on the part of the FreeBSD listserver/MTA. The mailing lists have archives available so that you can look for any messages you did not receiving during the problematic interval. See the URLs in the header and footer of any message from the list. -- -Chuck