ezmlm warning

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 at 15:27, Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

For the record, the one that bounced is this:
https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2018-07/msg00340.html

I don't recommend clicking on the attachment.