[51327] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Knowles)
Fri Aug 23 09:08:09 2002
In-Reply-To: <E17iBrM-0002Fe-00@nmg2.csi.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:47:47 +0200
To: Martin Cooper <mjc@cooper.org.uk>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 11:40 AM +0100 2002/08/23, Martin Cooper wrote:
> How does it break mailing-lists? If the list sets the envelope sender
> to <list-request@listserv.domain.com> creating a MAIL-FROM shouldn't
> be a problem.
You may be surprised to discover this, but most mailing lists are
not proper mailing lists and are not managed with proper mailing list
management software. Most mailing lists are actually handled as
aliases, and therefore do not modify the envelope sender address.
> The only problem I can see is what to do about bounces
> (i.e. with a null envelope sender) - guess you could use header From
> instead maybe.
Actually, this is one area that the paper addresses.
--
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
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