[Ukfreebsd] list mail problems

[Frank Shute]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
>
> On 23/04/2010 13:27, Frank Shute wrote:
> >
> >Can anybody explain why I haven't received any mail from this list
> >since 08/03/08 until a couple of days ago?
> >
> >I always received the monthly reminder that I was subscribed and I did
> >try mailing the postmaster telling him I wasn't receiving mail.
> >
> >What's changed?
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> 
> The list grinded to a halt on august 09 & revived on the 24th of last month.
> There was a large ammount of stale email addersses in the members list 
> so though the server was revived the invalid addresses were causing 
> message delivery attempts to fail due to too many errors & the self 
> maintaining bounce mechanism wasn't able to run properly to prune 
> addresses. I've been clearing the invalid addresses from the members 
> list for the past few days & all is well now.
> 
> 
> Sevan

Right. It just needed some love & attention ;)

Glad it seems to be working again.


Regards,

-- 

 Frank

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