[Rwp] From server administrator/list moderator: Bouncing messages

Matej Golian matej.golian at gmail.com
Wed May 13 11:15:40 EDT 2015


Thanks for letting us know what's going on.

2015-05-13 17:07 GMT+02:00, Jayson Smith via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>:
> Hello,
>
> This morning I woke up to nearly a hundred notices in my inbox about RWP
> list members bouncing mail. I have the list set to notify me, and
> disable bouncing members, immediately so if my server is having problems
> delivering mail, I know about it immediately.
>
> There is nothing wrong with your Email accounts, and everything should
> be back to normal. The problem is that Theoreomonster sent an attachment
> this morning, not knowing if the list supports it. The list does...but
> Gmail, and apparently other Email systems using Google servers, will
> outright block attachments containing executables. As far as I know,
> it's not that this particular attachment was seen as a threat, it's just
> a blanket policy of blocking *all* attachments containing any sort of
> executable whatsoever. I've seen this happen before, and yes, it is
> annoying.
>
> There have been a few messages to the RWP list since this happened, and
> unfortunately I cannot retrieve them and send them to anyone who might
> have missed them.
>
> I've reset everyone's bouncing information, so if you received an Email
> saying your address is bouncing mail and to click a link or reply to
> confirm you received this message, and you haven't yet done so or didn't
> know if it was legitimate, the message was legitimate but you can
> disregard it, since your address is no longer flagged as bouncing mail.
>
> Thank you for your understanding,
>
> Jayson Smith
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