So I get voice mail from my employer, who's had precious little for me to do so far this year, but I'd been expecting that situation to change in the past few weeks...
His email to me is bouncing, apparently because of the latest spam-avoidance technique installed somewhere along the line, at an MTA level. He said my ISP was rejecting it; they say they're not, and it's probably some point in between that's causing the problem, but want to look at complete headers. Of course, getting a copy of those headers is a bit of a challenge right now.
And most of our communication is via email. And he's about to go out of town for a spell.
(Apparently the problem is with senders acting as their own MTA instead of relaying through their ISP's mail gateway, or something like that.)
I've gone from overlooking one of his messages because it was buried in a stack of spam (a month or two ago), to not getting his messages at all in the name of spam-avoidance (but not noticing any reduction in the amount of spam). *grrrr*
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MDA == Mail Delivery Agent (e.g. Procmail, though Sendmail often does this job as well)
MUA == Mail User Agent (e.g. Mutt, Pine, Elm, Netscape, Outlook, Eudora, /usr/bin/mail...)
More acronyms...
RFC == Request For Comments, the main type of standards document for Internet protocols
IEIEO ==
Actual PowerPC opcode (http://publibn.boulder.ibm.com/doc_link/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixassem/alangref/eieio.htm)
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