Fw: ezmlm warning

[Andrew Haley]

Ranjit Mathew writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 >     Every now and then, I get spurious bounced mail messages from the
 > software that manages this list - a sample is attached below. I get 
 > almost all the messages normally, except for these mysterious few.
 > 
 > The "65.54.254.140 does not like recipient" message does not make
 > much sense to me nor does the following
 > "Unable to relay for rmathew4lists@hotmail.com".
 > 
 > Does anyone know what causes these weird bounces and how, if at all,
 > I can help in sorting out matters? Does anyone else get these
 > intermittent bounces as well?

65.54.254.140 resolves like this:

140.254.54.65.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer mc3.law16.hotmail.com.

In other words, hotmail.com is refusing to relay mail to
rmathew4lists@hotmail.com.

Andrew.