Fwd: ezmlm warning

["Jan Beulich" <jbeulich at suse dot com>]

All,


for quite some time I've been getting one of these every once in a while.
Perhaps after some email system change over here, but see below.


>>> <binutils-help@sourceware.org> 05/21/18 10:40 AM >>>
>Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the
>binutils@sourceware.org mailing list.
>
>
>Messages to you from the binutils mailing list seem to
>have been bouncing. I've attached a copy of the first bounce
>message I received.
>
>If this message bounces too, I will send you a probe. If the probe bounces,
>I will remove your address from the binutils mailing list,
>without further notice.
>
>
>I've kept a list of which messages from the binutils mailing list have 
>bounced from your address.
>
>Copies of these messages may be in the archive.
>To retrieve a set of messages 123-145 (a maximum of 100 per request),
>send an empty message to:
><binutils-get.123_145@sourceware.org>
>
>To receive a subject and author list for the last 100 or so messages,
>send an empty message to:
><binutils-index@sourceware.org>
>
>Here are the message numbers:
>
>101621
>101642
>101657
>101658
>101659
>101660
>101661
>101664
>101666
>101667
>101668
>101669
>101676
>101674
>101675
>101690
>101692
>101693
>101694
>101695
>101696
>101698
>101701
>101702
>101703
>101705
>101708
>101709
>101712
>101718
>101720
>101723
>101733

It would really be helpful if one could identify these messages in the list
archive. So far I've not been able to correlate the numbers to anything the
list archive web pages would show.


>--- Enclosed is a copy of the bounce message I received.
>
>Return-Path: <>
>Received: (qmail 108666 invoked for bounce); 9 May 2018 11:24:50 -0000
>Date: 9 May 2018 11:24:50 -0000
>From: MAILER-DAEMON@sourceware.org
>To: binutils-return-101621-@sourceware.org
>Subject: failure notice
>
>Hi. This is the qmail-send program at sourceware.org.
>I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
>This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
>
><jbeulich@novell.com>:
>User and password not set, continuing without authentication.
><jbeulich@novell.com> 130.57.1.11 failed after I sent the message.
>Remote host said: 554 Line length exceeded per RFC2821 section 4.5.3.1

The question here is: Is the "Remote host" right? If yes, wouldn't it be better
to tell the sender of the original mail, so that they would (re)send well formed
mails? If not, once again it would be nice if identifying the messages in the
list archives was easily possible.

Jan