On Sat, 25 Mar 1995 11:33:03 -0400 (AST) bill@biome.bio.dfo.ca (Bill
Silvert) wrote:
> I'm getting a lot of "Mailbox not found" bounces on one of my lists,
> mostly from NOAA sites in the US. I don't know whether this means that
> the addresses are invalid, in which case I'll delete them, or just a
> symptom of temporary network problems. Can someone clarify this, or
> tell me what other diagnostic information to look for?
>
> In general I get a lot of bounces from US government sites. Does anyone
> else have any insights about this?
I've found that occasionally "user unknown" bounces are due to local
nameserver problems, not the the users really being unknown.
Try the postmasters of the bouncing sites, they should be able to tell
you what's happening.
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