From: Dennis Putnam (dennis.putnamaimaudit.com)
Date: Thu Sep 27 2007 - 09:55:10 CDT

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Thanks for the reply. I can attach the entire edited bounced message
but I sure can't tell where it came from. Of course the forwarded
bounce that I have does not contain any of the original headers which
is a real problem.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mail Delivery System
> [mailto:MAILER-DAEMONtheirdomain.COM]
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:43 AM
> To: Some User
> Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
>
>
> The following message to <mymailboxmydomain.com> was
> undeliverable. The reason for the problem: 5.1.0 - Unknown address
> error
> 500-'Firewall Error'
> <Text of original message deleted>

On Sep 27, 2007, at 10:22 AM, mouss wrote:

> Dennis Putnam wrote:
>> Thanks for the reply. As I mentioned in a previous response to
>> another
>> contributer, I may not have bee clear enough. First I think here
>> are 2
>> servers involved and the clients are irrelevant. The error is
>> occuring
>> between the sender's server and my (recipient's) server.
>>
>> It is certainly possible there is a lookup delay on the sender's
>> server
>> but I need a better definition of what the error is and some way to
>> determine which server is generating the error.
>>
>> I can add that the error message the sender gets comes from the
>> MAILER-DAMON on the sender's side. Can I draw any conclusions from
>> that?
>> I looked at my postfix log at the time the message was bounced and
>> cannot find any attempt from that server to contact mine. I have to
>> assume that it was not my server that produced that error but
>> rather the
>> sender's server and it was unable to find my server's address for
>> some
>> reason.
>
>
> if there is no postfix log, then the transaction did not reach your
> postfix. so this is not a postfix related issue.
>
> and with only two lines of a bounce message, we don't even know which
> system sent the bounce...
>

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