[17279] in Athena Bugs
Re: Jonathon Weiss: forwading broken on athena workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Mon Oct 18 11:01:18 1999
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Tom Coppeto <tom@MIT.EDU>, Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>,
postmaster@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 18 Oct 1999 11:01:06 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:34:25 -0400"
Message-ID: <u1hso381znx.fsf@pusey.mit.edu>
Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> * When an Athena workstation sends a bounce message, the
> bounce gets lost because of the null envelope from. We will
> be working around this problem in Tuesday's patch release by
> making sendmail send bounces with a mailer-daemon envelope
> from.
This would be a violation of the mail RFCs: all bounces must be sent
with an envelope from of <>; it is in this way that
bounces-in-response-to-bounces are detected and avoided.
Thomas
