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From: hans@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Hans Huttel)
Newsgroups: eunet.misc,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Why do I keep getting this error message ?
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Date: 1 May 91 13:26:06 GMT
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I have tried to reply to mail the Institute of Electronic Systems at Aalborg
University Centre, Denmark several times. I simply hit `r' once inside rmail.
The return path provided by rmail is @iesd.auc.dk (or rather, since
this is the UK, I get @dk.auc.iesd).

The last four or five times the only result of my attempted replies has been
an error message either similar to the one below or one that mentions `EAN
congestion'. I don't even get a copy of my message.

[ error message follows ]

Date: Wed,  1 May 91 13:20:09 WET
To: hans@edinburgh.lfcs
From: EAN Gateway Service (ean.10.7.86) <postmaster@ean-relay>
Subject: JNT-EAN Mail Gateway -- failed mail

Mail Failure Diagnostics:
Rejected-Message-id: <27335.9104241121@subnode.lfcs.ed.ac.uk>

Message Recipients:
   kgl@iesd.auc.dk: maximum time expired

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Why, o why does this keep happening ? I have now tried @iesd.uucp as a
last resort. This seems to work, but it is far from ideal. (I also think
@iesd.dk works, judging from an ongoing test).


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