From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 28 14:45:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239F137C034 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 14:45:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA24979; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:45:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200003282217.OAA01181@mx8-rwc.mail.home.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:45:07 -0600 (CST) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: csanakana Subject: Mail mystery possibly solved (Re: Majordomo results: which) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Mail to Cox@Home rep, Cc:'ed to freebsd-questions] On 28-Mar-00 csanakana wrote: > Hello Conrad, > > Thank you for your email. [verbiage about possible reasons for e-mail failures snipped for brevity] I think I may know what happened. I was just reviewing my logs under FreeBSD, which is my OS of choice and the one I run about 99.99% of the time. Saturday afternoon I had rebooted into Windows to do something. Since I'm on quite a few mailing lists, which I have filtered and sorted into various folders under FreeBSD, I generally don't check my e-mail when I'm using Windows, as was the case last Saturday. This is very likely when the problem arose. Under FreeBSD, I run a background fetchmail process every five minutes, so my remote mailbox will never overflow. Apparently, I was in Windows just long enough for an overrun to occur, and mail must have started bouncing back to the FreeBSD mailing lists' majordomo server, which I've been told will automatically unsubscribe an address from which it receives an excessive number of bounces. Again, I'm just assuming this may have been the cause. I could be mistaken. I would greatly appreciate it if you could check your system logs for any clues as to what actually did occur. Thanks for the reply. Much appreciated. Conrad Sabatier -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message