From guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu Mon Dec 6 23:11:35 1999
Dallman Ross <dman(_at_)netcom(_dot_)com> writes:
...
There is a race condition (I guess that's what
it is; I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm
using a misnomer) when two or more pieces of mail
arrive at the server simultaneously. I sometimes
ultimately do get such messages, but they are
contained inside of four or five recursive bounce
messages. Some text that accompanies one of these
bounce messages says something like this:
Reporting-MTA: dns; xxxxxxx xxxxxxx.net
Arrival-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:23:59 -0500 (EST)
Final-Recipient: RFC822; xxxxxxx(_at_)pop
Action: failed
Status: 5.5.0
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:26:00 -0500 (EST)
Can you include the *entire* bounce message (well, you can leave off
the actual message that caused the bounce)? In particular, there's
almost certainly some text above the text you show above which would
be useful to see, but everything up to the nested copy of the bounced
message would be of interest.
Certainly I can give you headers and such. I received the mail
ultimately in Outlook 2000. The only relevance there is that
the nexted messages show up as yellow envelope message-icons
nested inside of one another until the real message is unearthed
four or five layers in. I could give you headers for each
nested instance, but I think they are essentially the same.
What I have you was neither a header accouring to Outlook
nor the ASCII body but an attachment called ATT000??.dat. In this
case, "??" had three different values depending on the nested message.
I presume that is an envelope ID or process number or something like
that. Well, anyway, here is a header:
Return-Path: <xxxxxxx>
Received: (from xxxxxxx(_at_)localhost)
by yyyyyyy.yyyyyyy.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA19461
for xxxxxxx(_at_)pop; Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:30:01 -0500 (EST)
Received: from localhost (localhost)
by yyyyyyy.yyyyyyy.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with internal id KAA19426;
Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:30:01 -0500 (EST)
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:30:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON(_at_)yyyyyyy(_dot_)net>
Message-Id: <199912061530(_dot_)KAA19426(_at_)yyyyyyy(_dot_)yyyyyyy(_dot_)net>
To: xxxxxxx(_at_)yyyyyyy(_dot_)net
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status;
boundary="KAA19426.944494201/ulysium.ulysium.net"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
Then the bounce body (ASCII, not the DAT attachment I quoted before)
says:
The original message was received at Mon, 6 Dec 1999 10:28:00 -0500 (EST)
from xxxxxxx(_at_)localhost
----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
xxxxxxx(_at_)pop
----- Transcript of session follows -----
pop: unable to open /usr/spool/pop/xxxxxxx
554 xxxxxxx(_at_)pop(_dot_)(_dot_)(_dot_) Service unavailable
--
\ .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. /
\-d-/-m-\-a-/-n-\-(_at_)-/-n-\-e-/-t-\-c-/-o-\-m-/-.-\-c-/-o-\-m-/
'-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-' '-'