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Re: mail failed, returning to sender

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Nov 24 00:11:40 1998

Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 21:11:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: kerberos-request@MIT.EDU, postmaster@MIT.EDU, moiradev@MIT.EDU

>>> (Hmm... maybe if a bribe the Moira developers with enough bags of M&M's
>>> they'll add a bit to the Moira database entry for lists which indicate
>>> whether or not the alias file should be set up to redirect the SMTP
>>> envelopment from field to the owner list.  :-)
>> why not just do it for all list explosions?  seems to me that it will always
>> do the right thing.
> Because to do this for all list explosions would increase the number of
> entries in that part the aliases file by 50%, and it's already quite
> large.  (We run a *huge* number of lists on the mailhub.)

then use the current aliases, and make the envelope from kerberos-request.
or at least postmaster.  having bounces go to the message sender is rather
poor net citizenship.  i demand a refund!  :-)

randy

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