Because of a negative Schufa response (Schufa is a german organization that tracks most of your credit records so anyone can go ask them if person X may be a responsible credit partner), I asked them for my personal data record. I responded to their request for my additional and old postal addresses via mail to verbraucherantwort@schufa.de.

What then happened, amused me so much I decided to write this post:

Delivered-To: xxxx
Received: by mein-server (Postfix, from userid 1004)
  id E6CC3280DCE; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:05:27 +0100 (CET)
Received: from mx02.schufarz.de (mx02.schufarz.de [149.13.69.12])
  by meinserver (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF881280045
  for <xxxx>; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:05:26 +0100 (CET)
From: trustmail-support@schufa.de
To: xxxx
Message-ID: <11157083.25471.1324152323482.JavaMail.trustmail@Trustmail02>
Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Error_delivering_mail_with_subject_<Referenz?=
 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_1nnnnn8:_Mitteilung_fr=FCherer_Anschriften>?=
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/report; 
  boundary="----=_Part_25470_18168411.1324152323482"
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:05:23 +0100 (CET)

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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

The email to the following recipient(s) could not be delivered:

verbraucherantwort@schufa.de
No mail server(s) available at this time.

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I’m happy for those servers. Even the gate keeper worked as you would expect from a german official: The answer was delivered about 6 hours after my mail.