On Fri, 17 Apr 1992 20:17 CST6CDT, Phil Endacott <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>The addressee has been on the LDBASE-L list for some time (at least
>since January!!) and has never suffered "bounced" mail until today.
>I do not recognize the error messages as "normal" and wonder if I
>should delete BOTH subscribers at TSO.UC.EDU?
>
I entered 'TELNET TSO.UC.EDU 25', and 'VRFY DRECE' and got:
  250 </mail/dr/drece.CIX>
In response to 'VRFY LDBASE-L', I got:
  250 </tech/internet/ldbase-l.CIX>
 
Both values seem "normal".
>
>------------------------- Message in error (44 lines) ----------------
>Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 19:01:15 EDT
>From: [log in to unmask] (Mail Delivery Subsystem)
>Subject: Returned mail: Can't create output
>
>   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>error: @VM1.NoDak.EDU:[log in to unmask]
> denied write access to /tech/internet/ldbase-l
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>554 /tech/internet/ldbase-l.CIX... unknown mailer error 2
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>550 /freenet/data/admin/files/dead.letter... Can't create output
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>   ----- Unsent message follows -----
>Date:         Fri, 17 Apr 1992 17:45:51 CDT
>From: Bob Woodward <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject:      EMAIL statistics
>To: "Daryl [log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>,
>        "TriState Online" <[log in to unmask]>
>
I would **not** delete Daryl, since it seems that his E-mail is OK.
I recommend that you send E-mail to [log in to unmask],
and ask for help; perhaps, the "file permissions" have been modified
such that E-mail cannot be appended to the specified file.
 
Note that the '550' message is probably an indication of a "secondary" problem;
since the host 'TSO.UC.EDU' runs U**X, it's common for U**X to try to
write to the file 'dead.letter' when all else fails.
Why that writing failed is a **second** problem!