[Am-info] anyone else get the viri message with the empty subject line?

[Mitch Stone]

On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 09:04 AM, Eric M. Hopper wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-08-16 at 10:56, Mitch Stone wrote:
>> Even being subscribed isn't a guarantee that you'll be able to post. 
>> About
>> 50% of my posts are rejected, which is why I don't bother much anymore.
>
> Hmm, I never have that problem.  Are you sure you always have the same
> 'From:' address?

Yup. Here is a typical transcript:

From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON@mac.com>
Date: Mon Aug 05, 2002  08:20:32 AM US/Pacific
To: <mitchstone@mac.com>
Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details

The original message was received at Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:20:19 -0700 (PDT)
from smtp-relay03-en1 [10.13.10.222]

    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<am-info@venice.essential.org>
     (reason: 550 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [204.179.
120.97])

    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
... while talking to venice.essential.org.:
DATA
<<< 550 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname, [204.179.120.97]
550 5.1.1 <am-info@venice.essential.org>... User unknown
<<< 554 Error: no valid recipients
Reporting-MTA: dns; smtpout.mac.com
Received-From-MTA: DNS; smtp-relay03-en1
Arrival-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:20:19 -0700 (PDT)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; am-info@venice.essential.org
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
Remote-MTA: DNS; venice.essential.org
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 Client host rejected: cannot find your hostname,
  [204.179.120.97]
Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 08:20:32 -0700 (PDT)

From: Mitch Stone <mitchstone@mac.com>
Date: Mon Aug 05, 2002  08:20:21 AM US/Pacific
To: AM-INFO <am-info@venice.essential.org>
Subject: Sun adds to confusion over StarOffice for OS X