From: "Jeff Vian" <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx>
On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 15:59 -0400, Steven Pasternak wrote:
Andy Green wrote:
> Steven Pasternak wrote:
>> Hi! I am on a bunch of mailing-lists (this one, kde-linux, and
>> suse-linux-e), and I have gotten a message from each about my
>> messages bouncing and my account being suspended. I use thunderbird
>> 1.5.0.2 on FC5. I have almost 40,000 emails from June '04 saved.
>> Could I have some sort of virus? Does linux GET viruses? I really
>> don't want to be permanently canned from the lists, so could anyone
>> help? Thanks!
>
> The list server software has noticed it has been unable to deliver a
> bunch of mails to your mailbox. To stop wasting time and bandwidth
> trying to repeatedly deliver every message forever hopelessly again
> and again, as a safety measure the list software disables your account
> temporarily and tries to notify you.
>
> Examine your mail logs to find out what happened, or if you simply had
> extended downtime, just re-enable your account on each list.
>
> -Andy
>
I WAS gone for a week in Florida over spring break; could that be the
reason?
If your mail box filled up and bounced incoming mail it certainly could
be.
To avoid that, if I am going to be gone for a time I usually unsubscribe
from the lists, then resubscribe when I return.
I just have an ISP that allows gigabyte and more mailboxes.... (I am my
own "real" mail ISP. I fetch it from Earthlink and store it here. Loren
keeps emails on the servers. I don't. So all 4+ GiB I have stored is no
problem at all. There's another 287 GiB where that 4 came from. But I
do not expect to use it ALL for only email.)
{^_-}
