ADMIN: Email client feed and care ...

[Matti Aarnio]

Folks,

  I really don't know what I should do when legitimate (but malformed)
email gets bounced by some systems because their writers consider that
malformed email is a bad thing, and must not be accepted.

  We see also increasing amount of bounces by systems who think that
some 10 line linux-kernel text message is spam...

  There are two things:
      - Senders must REALLY send valid messages
      - Recipients SHOULD be more lenient on what they accept
        (And spam-detectors be smarter.  Having URLs mentioned
         in message text - maybe that was the reason - should
         not mean it is spam...)

If we ever automate recipient removal (we have means for it, more or
less), there would be no warning whatsoever when a subscriber gets
kicked out.

          /Matti Aarnio

FAILED:
  Original Recipient:
    rfc822;[e-mail]
  Control data:
    smtp ignus.com [e-mail] 99
  Diagnostic texts:
...\
    <<- MAIL From:<[e-mail]> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=1718
    ->> 250 Ok.
    <<- RCPT To:<[e-mail]> NOTIFY=FAILURE ORCPT=rfc822;[e-mail]
    ->> 250 Ok.
    <<- DATA
    ->> 354 Ok.
    <<- .
    ->> 550-This message has 8-bit content, but does not have the required MIME
    ->> 550-headers.  Sorry, this mail server does not accept mail without the
    ->> 550-required MIME headers.  See <URL:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2045.txt>
    ->> 550 for more information.
FAILED:
  Original Recipient:
    rfc822;[e-mail]
  Control data:
    smtp test.wirex.com [e-mail] 99
  Diagnostic texts:
...\
    <<- MAIL From:<[e-mail]> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=1718
    ->> 250 Ok.
    <<- RCPT To:<[e-mail]> NOTIFY=FAILURE ORCPT=rfc822;[e-mail]
    ->> 250 Ok.
    <<- DATA
    ->> 354 Ok.
    <<- .
    ->> 550-This message has 8-bit contents, but does not have the necessary MIME
    ->> 550-headers.  Sorry, this mail server does not accept mail without the
    ->> 550-required MIME headers.  See <URL:ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2045.txt>
    ->> 550 for more information.

Content-Type: message/rfc822

Subject: Re: monitor file writes
From:	Xavier Bestel <[e-mail]>
To:	Dennis Bjorklund <[e-mail]>
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Date:	11 May 2001 13:51:26 +0200
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Le 08 May 2001 06:27:52 +0200, Dennis Bjorklund a écrit :
> Is there a way in linux to montior file writes?
> 
> I have something that is writing to the disk every 5:th second (approx.)

probably kupdate ... look for noflushd on freshmeat.net and read the
docs.

Xav