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TIG administration (MS Exchange)
- To: telecine internet group <telecine at alegria.com>
- Subject: TIG administration (MS Exchange)
- From: rob at alegria.com (Rob Lingelbach)
- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 10:50:44 -0600
- Organization: Altruistic Intentions
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In a continuing effort to help educate those who are in a position to
influence the decisions of systems/network administrators and their
superiors, and as an example of the kind of nonstandard,
indecipherable, ridiculous delivery failure reports, I offer
the following example of a recent flood of bounce diagnostics
received here from a host running Microsoft Exchange:
Your message
To: multiple recipients of
Subject: Re: [TIG] Color space article
Sent: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:19:45 +1100
did not reach the following recipient(s):
Case, Dominic on Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:20:49 +1100
The recipient could not be processed due to congestion in the
message transfer service
MSEXCH:MSExchangeMTA:Sydney:ORAC
1) the recipient address is not revealed, but the name is:
the address is many orders of magnitude more important.
2) the message suffered permanent failure when it should have
at worst been issued a temporary failure.
3) "congestion in the message transfer service" has very little
meaning.
I could continue, but just wanted to point out that system
administration is made extremely difficult when software does not
follow internet standards, and writes its own. (ref: IETF RFC 821)
--Rob
TIG admin
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