[Mailman-Users] Question about rejection messages.

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:42:13 -0500 "Barry S. Finkel" <bsfinkel at att.net> wrote:

> 
> On 7/1/2014 6:50 AM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I am the site admin of a server that hosts a bunch of Mailman lists and on the
> > 1st of the month Mailman sends out its monthly reminder messages.  Some of
> > these messages are bouncing.  Some are *obviously* for people who have changed
> > E-Mail providers (the bunces say 'User Unknown' or 'Mailbox full').  But some
> > have 'odd' rejection reasons and I wonder what it really going on.
> >
> > Comcast is bouncing with the message:
> >      reason: 554 Transaction Failed Spam Message not queued.
> >
> > Is this Comcast's way of 'hiding' the fact that the E-Mail address is no
> > longer valid? That is, does Comcast consider E-Mail to unknown users spam?
> >
> >
> 
> 
> My interpretation of the message is this - Comcast, for some unstated
> reason, thinks that this mail is spam, so it is not going to accept
> the message.  Without seeing the exact mail that was being sent,
> I cannot tell what Comcast might have thought objectionable.

It was the monthly Mailman reminder message.

> 
> --Barry Finkel
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