From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263234AbTD1LMV (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:12:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263239AbTD1LMV (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:12:21 -0400 Received: from mail.zmailer.org ([62.240.94.4]:1976 "EHLO mail.zmailer.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263234AbTD1LMU (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Apr 2003 07:12:20 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 14:24:34 +0300 From: Matti Aarnio To: Oliver Feiler Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mailinglist problems? Message-ID: <20030428112434.GH24892@mea-ext.zmailer.org> References: <200304281223.53020.kiza@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200304281223.53020.kiza@gmx.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 12:23:44PM +0200, Oliver Feiler wrote: > Hi, > > as of late I'm getting a lot of messages with a couple of days(!) delay > delivered. Others from the same thread come in with no noticable delay. For some reason (while I was away from network), GMX.NET servers have decided that vger.kernel.org is mail-bombing recipients. There are some 30-40 recipients of linux-kernel list at GMX.NET, and there are (varying) 100-300 emails per day for each of them. > For example ... > Replies to this came in long before. Anyone else having these sort of problems > lately or should I go flame my email provider? :) I forwarded to you, and all other GMX.NET domain subscribers the letter I have already sent to postmaster@gmx.net -- but you (as their customers) may have more weight that an external nobody, like myself... Most common troubles that users have are: - "Relaying denied" (in its many forms --> http://vger.kernel.org/mxverify.html ) - "Mailbox full" (these lists are of HIGH VOLUME!) - DNS-lookup/connection timed out for 4+ days Then come various weird things, like overzealous reg-expr message content filters, broken MTA configurations (don't people ever test that their changes do work ?), etc... > Bye > -- > Oliver Feiler > http://kiza.kcore.de/ <-- homepage > PGP-key --> /pgpkey.shtml > http://kiza.kcore.de/journal/ /Matti Aarnio -- co-postmaster of vger.kernel.org