[Physics] "Excessive bounces"

[Arend Lammertink]

Hi Tom, Carl,

I re-enabled your account, and also 4 other ones.

Sometimes, mailman (the mailinglist program) cannot deliver a mail to
your account, so the message is sent back to mailman. This is what's
called a "bounce".

For example, your (isp's) mail server may mark a message as "spam" and
refuses it.

Mailman keeps track of how many "bounces" it receives from a certain
e-mail address. At some point, it concludes: "hey, this e-mail address
is not working!" and then it disables that account.

I have now changed some settings, so it becomes more tolerant, but
you certainly have missed some messages. You can check the archive:

http://mail.tuks.nl/pipermail/physics/2016-December/thread.html

Regards,

Arend.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 11:15 AM, carmam at tiscali.co.uk
<carmam at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> I have just received an email, part of which is shown here. Being very wary
> of spam and phishing, I did not reply to it. I do not not know what it
> refers to. What are "excessive bounces"
> My last post to tuks was on the 9th of December, so it would appear my
> suspicions are correct. What do I do?
>
> Tom Hollings.
>
>
>
> Your membership in the mailing list Physics has been disabled due to
> excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
> 13-Dec-2016.  You will not get any more messages from this list until
> you re-enable your membership.  You will receive 3 more reminders like
> this before your membership in the list is deleted.
>
> To re-enable your membership, you can simply respond to this message
> (leaving the Subject: line intact), or visit the confirmation page at...
>
>
>
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