Re: Mails with (no subject)

[Eric Siegerman]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:55:56AM -0700, Teala Spitzbarth wrote:
> I'm still getting flooded!?
> 
> So this is not yet fix.....

The underlying problem may well have been solved, but we'll be
dealing with the fallout for a while.

I just got a few more of these as well.  Here are the Received:
headers from one:
> Received: from fencepost.gnu.org (fencepost.gnu.org[199.232.76.164])
>         by mail.telepres.com (Smail-3.2.0.111 2000-Feb-17 #1; 2000-Feb-24)
>         (5296 bytes) via sendmail with /P:esmtp/D:user/T:local
>         id <address@hidden>
>         (sender <address@hidden>)
>         for <address@hidden>; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:26:34 -0400 (EDT)
> Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org)
>         by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian))
>         id 15WMx5-0001cf-00; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 15:00:39 -0400 
> Received: from gateway.camelot.co.jp ([61.122.39.2] helo=camelot.co.jp)
>         by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian))
>         id 15WDuY-0006OD-00
>         for <address@hidden>; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 05:21:27 -0400
> Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>   (uid 0)
>   by camelot.co.jp with local; Mon, 13 Aug 2001 18:16:11 +0900

Camelot sent the thing 10 hours ago (05:21 EDT, or 09:21 UTC) --
I'm guessing this was before they claimed to have fixed things --
but fencepost.gnu.org didn't retransmit it until 15:00 EDT (19:00
UTC).  Under the circumstances, it's not too surprising that it's
taking fencepost a long time to chew through its mail queue.

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