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Mail holiday

Found a bunch of ~6000 email entries telling me — a classic message — that I had no space in which to store email messages (this is what happens when you open an unlimited download of assorted legal DVD contents, then get run over within a day or two so the download can ramp up to tens of gigabytes in a few days, ie, well before one heals).

That discovery decreased my email queue by nearly 10%; so, who knows? I may yet send out real numbers of real email responses by the end of this week! Only sixty-odd thousand left to read in my main account...

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Leon RJ Brooks said…
Oh, and a quick search tells me that at least 98% of the remaining mail is errors and/or spam. Hope blooms eternal (and lawn-mower-like) upon my heart. (-:
22 May, 2006 09:01
Leon RJ Brooks said…
Turfed that lot (glad that I avoid MS-VirusParty-LookOut else it might have gotten them all *run* instead), and went from 60-odd-thousand emails to 1300. Now there's a slight improvement!
22 May, 2006 10:11
Anonymous said…
Hiya Leon

Still got some kind of reply-to trickiness
So heres a blog w00t to your linux-au post. And at risk of filling your world with more spam the info from the header thingy is below.

Leon Brooks wrote:

> Leon (/ME) is at home and legging it about OK.
w00t. =)
Cheers from the cheap seats.
Janet

This is the Postfix program at host spamtrap.cyberknights.com.au.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.

For further assistance, please send mail to (postmaster)

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the attached returned message.

The Postfix program

(leon-linuxaus@cyberknights.com.au): User unknown in virtual alias table



Reporting-MTA: dns; spamtrap.cyberknights.com.au
X-Postfix-Queue-ID: 2144CA7043
X-Postfix-Sender: rfc822; lucychili@internode.on.net
Arrival-Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 20:56:26 +0800 (WST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; leon-linuxaus@cyberknights.com.au
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; User unknown in virtual alias table
22 May, 2006 21:26
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