On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 17:11 +0100, Simon Matter wrote: <snip> > > > > is this related? > > Your mail contains another error but the problem is the same in the end, > your MTA accepts a mail which is later refused by Cyrus-IMAPd. > > Both cases are bad because it creates backscatter. > > Would be nice to know what exactly is wrong with the mail in your case. hi simon, so -- i forgot that following the first error i upgraded to 2.3.16 and made no changes to the imapd.conf. need more sleep and less coffee :-) i have just successfully received a mail that had previously bounced (in a tcpdump file) would it be of use to you to see the message contents? thanks m ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/