From markrcrispin@panda.com Wed Feb 11 11:12:42 2009 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:11:17 From: Mark Crispin To: "Carter, Ryan [BSD] - HSD" Cc: alpine-info@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: [Alpine-info] Body type not supported by Remote Host Your SMTP (mail delivery) server, presumably Exchange based as your IMAP server is, is deficient in that it does not support a mandatory portion of the Internet mail standards. What's worse, it rejects mail for this reason, rather than accepting it and letting the recipient deal with the issue. Due to the uninformative nature of the message, there is no good way of guessing what the problem is beyond it not liking some MIME body type. Microsoft has a long history of releasing deficient software that fails to interoperate with Open Source Software. They know that the weasels who bought Exchange at your university will blame the Open Source software. After all, the weasels paid a lot of money for Exchange, so it must be good. And thus Microsoft perpetuates its monopoly. The bottom line is that you are screwed. It is highly unlikely that Microsoft will fix the problem, and only slightly less unlikely that the idiots who made the decision to deploy Exchange will put any pressure on Microsoft to fix the problem. [UW didn't!] Your choices, unfortunately, boil down to: [1] Do some experimentation to see if you can work around the problem. Maybe you can find some procedure that avoids sending messages that make your server choke. Maybe some other people on the list may have ideas of what to try. [2] Find a different mail server to use. This may be difficult if your correspondents can only be accessed on that defective mail server. [3] Give up, and switch to the "standard" email client: Outlook. That also entails getting rid of that Mac in favor of "standard" Windows. My personal choice is [2], although in a pinch I would choose [1]. If I were ever to choose [3], you might as well bury me, because it is clear that I've become brain-dead. Obviously, [3] is what your local weasels want you to do. There's a lot of that going around. On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Carter, Ryan [BSD] - HSD wrote: > I'm using Alpine 2.0 on OS X 10.5 connecting to an Exchange 2003 Server > via IMAP. On some reply messages, I received a bounce with the > following reason: > > Remote Host> > > > > Now this is only happening with certain domain names. Interesting, I > can reply to the message via Outlook Web Access without any problems? > Does anyone have any ideas what is happening here? Is there some setting > I can change? > > > > Thank you > > Ryan Carter > > University of Chicago > > rcarter@uchicago.edu > > > > > > This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of this email message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and destroy/delete all copies of the transmittal. Thank you. > -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote. _______________________________________________ Alpine-info mailing list Alpine-info@u.washington.edu http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info