On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:50 -0400, Jacques B. wrote: > On 10/26/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 08:45 +1000, Simon Slater wrote: > > > What couses bouncing, excessive or not? > > > > If it's not your mailbox filling up, and being unable to accept more > > mail until you clear it, then it's your ISP not accepting mail (perhaps > > for similar reasons, but not your mailbox individually - such as their > > entire mail file system being too full or too busy, or implementing bad > > thought out anti-spam procedures). A third reason might be something > > between your ISP and the list, but I suspect the second reason is > > probably the one. > > > > About your only recourse for the second reason (it's the ISP), is to > > change where you receive your mail. Sign up for another mail account, > > somewhere, and use that for receiving list mail. Otherwise, you'd have > > to try and convince your ISP to lift their game (good luck with that). > > > > > > -- > I suggest looking at Gmail. I use it for this list and a few others. > Once you catch on to the concept of labels it's smooth sailing. I > love that I can search my emails with Google. And it does an > excellent job in threading all the messages so it's easy to read an > entire thread. > > Jacques B. > Thanks Tim, Harald & Jaques for the info. Just on the technical side, what actually causes the bounce? If my allocation on the ISP is full I understand that. Otherwise is it their spam filtering (like in the concurrent iptables thread)?... -- Regards Simon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
