Re: [META] Mail lossage

Hal Finney (hal@rain.org)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 15:26:46 -0700


Mark Grant writes:

> X-Authentication-Warning: maxwell.lucifer.com: majordom set sender to postmaster@extropy.org using -f
> Date: Sat, 20 Sep 1997 08:12:18 +0000
> From: Mark Grant <mark@unicorn.com>
> Subject: Re: [META] Mail lossage
> To: extropians@extropy.org
> In-Reply-To: <199709192126.OAA02220@s27.term1.sb.rain.org>
> Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9709200851.B473-0100000@marui>
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
> Sender: postmaster@extropy.org
> Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
> X-UIDL: e886e38822b45c12271b558414ff5a18
>
>
> Mail to extropy.org often seems to go through pobox.com, and whenever that
> happens my mail is bounced back to me. They may have installed
> anti-relaying software to prevent spam, but which blocks a lot of
> legitimate users as well.
>
> Mark

Note that your Message-ID ends with "@marui". marui by itself is not
a legitimate DNS name. This is similar to my problem, where I had a bogus
name in the Message-ID. I suspect the rejections are related to this.

Hal