On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 18:50 -0400, Jacques B. wrote:
On 10/26/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au> 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)?...
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Regards
Simon