On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 2/26/09 9:57 AM, Michael Bimmler wrote:
On 2/26/09, Brion Vibberbrion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hard to investigate without knowing details such as time and source address. :)
In most cases, mails are automatically rejected for being sent from an address that is not subscribed. Due to the sheer volume of spam, we don't let those through to the moderation queue.
Eh, I know - I wrote the text of the auto-rejection email for foundation-l ;-)
But in this case we're talking list subscribers... Anyway, I'll follow up if it happens again or I receive more details.
Many people have multiple addresses, and sometimes accidentally send from a different address than the one they've subscribed with.
They then email the list moderator asking why their mail didn't come through; when I investigate I usually find that they are subscribed with a different address from the one they're mailing me with, and recommend that they send their email from the other address, at which point their mails get through just fine.
Perhaps the auto-rejection text message could be edited to add a suggestion to checki this? Most people will not check it anyway, but If this is normal, it seems a good idea.