>Dear Listowners, > > FWIW. It seems that error messages, lately, seem to be getting a >little >"user friendly." Are some of you seeing the same things that I am? I get a >kick out of some mailer daemons in how they communicate their problems back >to me. Instead of "mailbox full," or "user unknown," etc.., take a look at >this one: > >"Hi. This is the qmail-send program at relay05.netaddress.usa.net. I'm >afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. This >is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > ><[log in to unmask]>: >207.205.100.50 does not like recipient. >Remote host said: 550 <[log in to unmask]>... Account terminated >Giving up." That seems to be a standard qmail error. I think that more and more sites are switching to qmail for various reasons (speed, security, etc), which would explain the greater instances of such user-friendly bounces. While these error messages are better than many (and of course are light-years ahead of the standard exchange and ccmail gateway bounces), I'd still prefer something in a format LISTSERV could handle automatically. (For me, the most user-friendly bounce message is the one I never have to see.) Grumpily, jwgh