So one should extrapolate this to mean that if one sends an email to a or
through a Microsoft system from a Linux box then there is a very high
probability that MS will reject the email.
Now, I don't know about you people but that doesn't sound like the MS I know.
As I recall they are the most congenital, friendly, informative, and helpful
of people.
They have always willing to do anything possible to help their competitors
out --- (the door).
Frank
On Wednesday 12 February 2003 02:22, R P Herrold wrote:
> There was some loose and inaccurate accusation respecting NKS
> mailserver's configuration earlier about Paul's reaction
> unsubscribing various hotmail subscribers.
>
> As a volunteer, I admin a couple of Open Source package
> related mailing lists. I received this earlier today:
>
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:25:51 -0800
> From: postmaster@mail.hotmail.com
> To: rpm-list-admin@redhat.com
> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
> ----------------------------------------
>
> [ The following text is in the "unicode-1-1-utf-7" character set. ]
> [ Your display is set for the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
> [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]
>
> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status
> Notification.
>
> Delivery to the following recipients failed.
>
> alderdavid@hotmail.com
> carlotamadani@hotmail.com
> iamboy93@hotmail.com
> katakam2003@hotmail.com
> likk@hotmail.com
> raymond_zeng2000@hotmail.com
> sherman_shark@hotmail.com
> tdjudice@hotmail.com
> tesla1313@hotmail.com
> tom_noni@hotmail.com
> tongchit@hotmail.com
> w_chierici@hotmail.com
> zamorano_gerardo@hotmail.com
>
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns;mc10-s5.bay6.hotmail.com
> Received-From-MTA: dns;mc10-f19.bay6.hotmail.com
> Arrival-Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 09:25:51 -0800
>
> Original-Recipient:
> Final-Recipient: rfc822;alderdavid@hotmail.com
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.0.0
>
> <snip> repeating this for each of the listed people ...
>
> The permissible reply codes are set out at RFC 2821, section
> 4.2.1 ( http://asg.web.cmu.edu/rfc/rfc2821.html#sec-4.2.1 )
>
> A 50x return is a permanent rejection, for syntatic reasons.
> Clearly no change in sending syntax ocurred. see section
> 4.2.3. Simply -- the hotmail server is non-compliant with the
> RFC.
>
> I too simply unsubscribe when I get a bounce series like this,
> if the list software has not beat me to it.
>
> -- Russ Herrold
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