Hello fellow list-owners. I seem to have encountered a rather strange series of bounces from one subscriber's internet service provider. I contacted them about a week ago and got a response at that time saying that they were going to fix the problem (something related to their servers refusing to relay among themselves as I gather that mail.gelnhausen.net and pop3.main-kinzig.net are from this same provider and are used as two seperate mail servers. Below, you will find my latest correspondance with this provider and also the error message which I have received from LISTSERV. Does the suggestion I am being given here make any sense, and if it does, how do I tell LISTSERV to not capitalize the domain name by default if it is even possible to do that? Glenn Alperin [log in to unmask] -- Date: 16-Oct-1998 03:59am EDT From: Arne Kuhlmann [log in to unmask] Dept: Tel No: TO: Glenn Alperin ( [log in to unmask] ) Subject: Re: Please help me again. Hi, yes I thought we had the problem fixed... It seems to be a bug in the mail server. Can you please change the users's e-mail address from @POP3.MAIN-KINZIG.NET to @pop3.main-kinzig.net (lower case)?? This should take care of the problem. Thanks, Arne Kuhlmann Glenn Alperin wrote: > > Hello there! > > I contacted you a few days ago to report a similar problem with your > server, and to date have had no further problems, but just today, I > received two such notices that relaying between mail.gelnhausen.net and > pop3.main-kinzig.net is not allowed. As I discovered a few days ago when > I had e-mailed you at that point in time, I was informed that these two > servers should not have such difficulties with relaying to each other > since you are running both servers. Please correct this problem again > when you have a spare moment as I have a subscriber to my list who is > probably wondering where his mail from the list is. Additionally, to > preserve confidentiality of my list, I have removed the user's login name > from this error report and replaced it with the characters "x" where his > login name would ordinarily go. > > Sincerely, > Glenn Alperin > [log in to unmask] > list-owner (in name only) of faceblind > > The header information of the error message appears below for your > reference. > ________________________________________________________________________________ > > Date: 15-Oct-1998 11:12am EDT > From: L-Soft list server at St. John > [log in to unmask] > Dept: > Tel No: > > TO: Glenn Alperin ( [log in to unmask] ) > > Subject: FACEBLIND: error report from MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU > > The enclosed message, found in the FACEBLIND mailbox and shown under the spool > ID 12028470 in the system log, has been identified as a possible delivery error > notice for the following reason: "Message/Delivery-Status" body part found in > the message body. > > ------------------------ Message in error (52 lines) -------------------------- > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:07:12 -0500 > Reply-to: [log in to unmask] > From: "LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a" <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Undelivered mail > To: [log in to unmask] > X-Report-Type: Nondelivery; boundary="> Error description:" > > An error was detected while processing the enclosed message. A list of > the affected recipient follows. This list is in a special format that > allows software like LISTSERV to automatically take action on incorrect > addresses; you can safely ignore the numeric codes. > > --> Error description: > Error-for: [log in to unmask] > Error-Code: 3 > Error-Text: Mailer mail.gelnhausen.net said: > "550 relaying mail to POP3.MAIN-KINZIG.NET is not allowed" > > Error-End: One error reported. > > ------------------------------ Original message ------------------------------ > Received: from maelstrom.stjohns.edu by maelstrom.stjohns.edu (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <[log in to unmask]>; Thu, 15 Oct 1998 12:07:01 -0500 > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:52:06 -0500 > Reply-To: faceblind The Face Blind Folks <[log in to unmask]> > Sender: faceblind The Face Blind Folks <[log in to unmask]> > From: xxxxx xxxxxxx <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: Hoplessness???(was Re: psychobabble) > To: [log in to unmask] > In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> > > <Message text removed to preserve anonimity>