Bounces?
ToddAndMargo
ToddAndMargo at zoho.com
Sat Aug 23 12:49:07 CEST 2025
On 8/22/25 3:46 AM, Michael De Roover wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 August 2025 02:21:26 CEST ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What is this constant message all about? I do re-enable,
>> but I am wondering what is causing them.
>>
>>> Your membership in the mailing list Xfce has been disabled due to
>>> excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated
>>> 20-Aug-2025. 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.
>>
>> I did receive a post acknowledgement today (2025-08-20)
>>
>> from the forum (before I re-enabled):
>>> Your message entitled
>>>
>>> Re: My start and stop oneko script
>>>
>>> was successfully received by the Xfce mailing list.
>>
>> Is there something I can do to permanently fix this?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
>
> A bounce is an SMTP response given by a receiving mail server. If I'm not
> mistaken, this would be the xfce.org mailing list as the sender, and zoho.com
> as the receiver. From there onwards, the emails are supposed to go into
> delivery to the user, first on server and then over IMAP. Often it's Microsoft
> and Google that would bounce email IME. It needs to be discussed with customer
> support for postmasters, or resolved through a form if they have one (e.g.
> JMRP for Microsoft, not sure about Google). Maybe Zoho has something like that
> too.
>
> Judging from how they laid out their mail servers, they have 2 public-facing
> endpoints for it. Those endpoints are part of their own AS2639, which appears
> to be a large hosting provider. I'll attach a shell log showing how I came to
> these conclusions.
>
> FWIW, I did receive your response about the oneko script. Thank you for that.
> I'll take a look at it shortly, perhaps over the weekend or next week. There
> are still a few things that need priority on my end.
Thank you!
I forwarded the appropriate information Zoho mail support.
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