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.
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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
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