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Re: Message saying this lists's mailbox is full



On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 11:08:15AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
>   >Yesterday I posted three messages to this list. All arrived (I received
>   >them today), but I also got 3 notifications (one attached) saying that
>   >they couldn't be delivered because the recipient's mail box was full.
>   >
>   >Has anyone seen anything like this?  Any explanation?
> 
> These are from list subscribers whose mailboxes are full; there's no problem
> at your end or in the list.  If a user is a continuing problem, we
> will have to ask the list administrators to unsubscribe him.

except this broken MTA helpfully neglects to mention WHO the user is
that has a full mailbox.  so there is no way to know who to
unsubscribe.  

> Let this also be a reminder to people who leave mail on their servers that
> they should purge saved mail from time to time; otherwise they may exceed
> their quotas and be unable to receive new mail.

indeed. 

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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