posting a reply to a thread strangeness

[Jared Norris]

On 1 April 2013 14:51, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> At 9:36 Mountain Standard Time, I posted a reply
> to Bill ChuppinRe: Wodim unable to write on DL DVD Drive
>
> I received a notification from gmail:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:        Delayed Mail (still being retried)
> Date:   Mon, 1 Apr 2013 00:41:20 -0400 (EDT)
> From:   MAILER-DAEMON at billmerriam.com (Mail Delivery System)
> To:     jd1008 at gmail.com
>
>
> This is the mail system at host hecto.billmerriam.com.
>
> ##############################**##############################**########
> # THIS IS A WARNING ONLY.  YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE. #
> ##############################**##############################**########
>
> Your message could not be delivered for more than 1 hour(s).
> It will be retried until it is 5 day(s) old.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the attached returned message.
>
>                    The mail system
>
> <lists at yocto.billmerriam.com>: temporary failure. Command output: now in
>     mailfilter maildrop: error writing to mailbox. /usr/bin/maildrop:
> Unable to
>     deliver to mailbox.
>
> ---------------------
>  So, has the ubuntu list been hacked?
> Or what's causing this?
>
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Nothing to do with the list unfortunately. Without seeing the full headers
I can only make enlightened guesses but from what I can see you've emailed
the list back. For whatever reason one of the users on the list (connected
to billmerriam.com) has a mail server issue. The odd thing about this is
that instead of reporting the bounce to the list administrators somehow or
other it's reported it directly to you, the sender. The list administrators
see regular messages like this and usually they fail silently (so the list
isn't spammed with the issues). This is the first I've heard of the sender
receiving directly responses as well. It might have something to do with
the mail server set up on billmerriam.com.

The message itself is a standard message basically saying it's a temporary
failure instead of a permanent failure, so it will keep trying to send the
email for the number of attempts listed in the message body.

Hope that helps.

-- 
Regards,

Jared Norris
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris
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