On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 01:55:28AM +1000, Pascal Hakim wrote: > On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 07:38:34AM -0800, J Y wrote: > > Hi, I don't seem to be getting messages from the users list. Sorry about > > adding to the traffic. I don't understand this list problem. My inbox > > has about 80 messages in it. (It can hold probably 500) I am using > > online email. Why I am getting repeatedly dropped/bounced from the > > list-if indeed I have been this time-I just don't know. JY > > 'lo, > Most mailbox have a size measures in space taken, rather > than just by the number of emails. You're probably getting too > many viruses or large attachments which are eating up all your > disk quota. When legitimate mail then comes in, there's no room > for it, and it gets bounced. And now that your ppp connection is working :-) you can look back at the threads discussing the various solutions to this. I'm currently using a modified version of Ron Johnson's python script backed up by mailfilter, run as a preconnect script to fetchmail, and it's effective at nuking virus traffic large and small. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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