ezmlm warning

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Sun, 5 Aug 2018 at 23:58, arrl via gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> On 8/5/2018 5:46 PM, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 06:51:52PM +0100, Toby Douglass wrote:
> >> On 05/08/18 18:17, Caroline Willis wrote:
> >>> Huh. This is odd.
> >>>
> >>> It’s okay to remove me from the list; I used to lurk more actively but I
> >>> haven’t been reading the emails for a while.
> >>
> >> I get this too every now and then, and then it goes away.
> >
> > In Caroline's case, it was a spam message.  They get through the filters
> > once in a while.
> >
> >
> > Segher
> >
> As I use an email forwarding facility, those messages may be triggered
> by either the forwarding or the real email account going down.
> Evidently, gmail isn't immune.

I don't think it's gmail being down, it's gmail rejecting an email
with malware or other dangerous content. The bad email is sent to the
list and gcc.gnu.org forwards it to each list subscriber. If the
subscriber's server rejects it then gcc.gnu.org sends the subscriber a
notice that the mail was rejected. It looks like a problem at your
end, but actually gmail is doing you a favour.