[ILUG] Re: Email failures...

[Colm Buckley]

John Gay wrote:

> Sent by:  Roel Flora  -  UNIX Systems Administrator, GIS Network Services
> 
> For the past couple of weeks there were some emails coming from
> "ilug-admin at linux.ie" which were causing our Mail relay to fail.  It
> is because of illegal mail headers generated from those emails.  As a
> result, we are temporarily blocking emails coming from
> "ilug-admin at linux.ie". At least we will be blocking those emails until
> we upgrade our mail servers which will be able to handle the problem,
> or until linux.ie fixes the illegal email headers.

Hmm.  I've had a careful look at the mail outgoing from the ILUG list
software, and there's nothing in there which isn't allowed by the RFC822
and associated specs.  In fact, the headers are pretty minimal compared
to the baroque reams which some mail clients put in...

Could you tell me precisely *which* headers your MTA has trouble with,
and I'll see whether anything can be done about it?

          Colm (wearing his listmaster at linux.ie hat)

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