[16784] in Athena Bugs
Re: Bounced mail from mailing lists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kev)
Fri Apr 2 14:07:25 1999
To: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Thomas H. Grayson" <thg@MIT.EDU>, bugs@MIT.EDU, phils@MIT.EDU,
karen@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Apr 1999 16:56:31 GMT."
<199904021656.QAA09697@antharia.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 14:07:17 EST
From: Kev <klmitch@MIT.EDU>
> Postmaster is aware of the problem, but I don't know if they've made a
> decision about what to do yet. (This new behavior is the default for
> new versions of sendmail, and is something many people at MIT have
> been asking for for a long time, so that list administrators will find
> out when addresses on their mailing lists have gone away and can
> remove them, rather than having the senders get the bounce messages
> when there's nothing they can do about them.)
Is the list self-owned? Usually, if an 'owner-listname' address exists,
mail to that list will have the envelope address reset to 'owner-listname'.
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