Re: reduced list activity
On Sat, Nov 01, 2025 at 12:55:04PM +0100, Marco Moock wrote:
> On 01.11.2025 03:50 Uhr mike.junk.46@att.net wrote:
>
> > I've seen several folks lately questioning reduced list activity.
> > While I'm not sure of the reasonm I've failed to post several times
> > in the last few weeks. Mutt has given this response when I try to
> > post: SMTP session failed: 550 Request failed; Mailbox unavailable
> > My mail goes out via smtp.mail.yahoo.com and other emails go out with
> > no trouble. This message is using Yahoo's web mail as suggested by
> > mrmazda on forums.debian.net. We'll se whether this gets through.
>
> Please post the full bounce mail you received - including the original
> mail that is often attached.
>
> It is quite common that mailing list posts are being rejected by the
> big players.
>
> --
> kind regards
> Marco
Hi Marco,
This is all on me.
Your suggestion of a bounce reminded my to use 'mutt -d3' when
posting. Doing so showed me that there were two of my addresses in the
mail, mikemcclain.46 which is my usual and mike.junk.46 which I use
for lists to reduce the spam in my mailbox. mutt's send-hook and
reply-hook are no longer enough. I've written a tiny script to switch
my user and password in .muttrc but so seldom post to debian-user that
I forget to switch. Hence yahoo refuses to post my messages.
Apologies for the noise,
Mike
--
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing
is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
- Albert Einstein
Reply to: