From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 29 12:29:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snowstorm.mail.pipex.net (snowstorm.mail.pipex.net [158.43.192.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 050C437B41A for ; Mon, 29 Apr 2002 12:29:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 2780 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2002 19:29:38 -0000 Received: from userhh092.dsl.pipex.com (HELO ThisAddressDoesNotExist) (62.190.215.92) by smtp-6.dial.pipex.com with SMTP; 29 Apr 2002 19:29:38 -0000 Subject: Re: I'm subscribed, so why aren't my questions being posted? From: Stacey Roberts Reply-To: stacey@dsl.pipex.com To: Jens Rehsack Cc: Bill Moran , freebsd-questions@FreeBSd.org In-Reply-To: <3CCD9A91.2C797EC9@liwing.de> References: <1020103791.307.10.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <3CCD948C.4030807@potentialtech.com> <1020106066.307.28.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <3CCD9A91.2C797EC9@liwing.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Date: 29 Apr 2002 20:25:57 +0100 Message-Id: <1020108357.307.61.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Jens, I've been eagerly checking for returned mail error messages for the last month, hoping to catch a clue as to why this was happening, but with no luck so far. Stacey On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 21:10, Jens Rehsack wrote: >=20 >=20 > Stacey Roberts wrote: > >=20 > > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for the response. > >=20 > > I've not gotten anything from either the mailing list to say that my > > e-mail was rejected, nor from my ISP's mail server indicating that ther= e > > was a problem sending the mail. >=20 > I got this problem half a year ago, too. The bounce-mail came back severa= l days > later, so waiting for it could help. Or you use a freemail account so far= ... >=20 > So long, > Jens >=20 > > I would say here though, that as much as I'm heartened by the fact that > > there are replies to my posting today, I still haven't actually receive= d > > the *original* posting I sent to the list sent to me - which has always > > been a sign that it actually got to the list. Or., has the situation > > changed? > >=20 > > Stacey > >=20 > > On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 20:44, Bill Moran wrote: > > > Stacey Roberts wrote: > > > > Hello There, > > > > This is a last resort for me. > > > > > > > > I've noticed that I no longer see my questions being posted to this > > > > list. > > > > > > > > I know that I'm still subscribed, as I still receive e-mail contain= ing > > > > the postings of other list subscribers. So what is it that has chan= ged > > > > over the last two months? > > > > > > > > I'm trying really hard to understand what has gone wrong, but I am = as > > > > yet unaware of anything done on my system that is causing this. I k= now > > > > that my mail works as I've (in testing) cc'd myself on a few of las= t > > > > questions just to see if it gets delivered - and they have indeed b= een > > > > delivered. > > > > > > Some more detail would be nice. Do you get bounce messages? Perhaps > > > your ISP changed their SMTP server config and broke the reverse DNS. > > > The mailing lists will reject an SMTP server with no reverse DNS. > > > > > > If your emails are simply disappearing into the Ether, then good luck > > > figuring it out. That shouldn't really happen, if the message can't > > > be delivered, you should get a bounce message. Again, your ISP may > > > have broken something in their SMTP config. > > > -- > > > Bill Moran > > > Potential Technology > > > http://www.potentialtech.com > > > > > -- > > Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science > > Network Systems Engineer > >=20 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 > --=20 > L i W W W i Jens Rehsack > L W W W > L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services > L i W W W W i n n g g > LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstra=DFe 2 > gggg 06112 Halle > g > g g > Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: > Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ --=20 Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science Network Systems Engineer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message