From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762219AbZE0QHw (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 12:07:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755701AbZE0QHp (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 12:07:45 -0400 Received: from 136-022.dsl.LABridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:2705 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750984AbZE0QHp (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 May 2009 12:07:45 -0400 Subject: Re: Lkml dropping mail? From: Joe Perches To: David Miller Cc: bobby.prani@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20090527.031849.245052029.davem@davemloft.net> References: <430c80e90905270044t4f2baa0u3e3c35b96f4a13df@mail.gmail.com> <20090527.031849.245052029.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:07:42 -0700 Message-Id: <1243440462.27337.14.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 03:18 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Pranith Kumar > Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:14:18 +0530 > > > Lkml missed two mails I sent earlier. Is it dropping the mail or something? > > If you have syntax errors in your email headers or some similar > problem with the content, we drop the message on the floor > and I personally get a bounce message indicating this. > > We don't automate sending the notification to the sender > because most of the things triggering this are SPAM. I think one more type of mail that would be good to automatically drop would be any mail that bcc's a list. ie: if no list entry in the to: or cc: header, drop.