Thanks for responding. I am still having the same problem. I plan to contact the postmasters, as suggested. However, I hope that there is also something that I can do, in the meantime, on my end. I double-checked and replies to list messages are indeed directed to the poster, as recommended.
The strange thing that I noticed is that auto-replies to the list are only from digest subscribers. I looked at a digest message to my list. The "To" field is the list address and the "From" field is the admin address, for example, listname-admin@... When I try replying to the digest message, I get the list address! I would think that a reply to the digest message would go to the admin address, since that's where the message originated.
When I reply to a regular posting, I get the poster address. Is there something wrong with the digest delivery? Also, when I am the poster of a message (and I have delivery set to regular), I get the auto-replies (not the list). Is there a way to have all auto-replies to the list sent to the listname-admin@ address?
Any ideas? Thanks.
Camille Powell, Web Designer Analytical Sciences, Inc. cpowell@asciences.com
-----Original Message----- From: Marc MERLIN [mailto:marc_news@valinux.com] Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2001 2:17 AM To: Camille K. Powell Cc: Greg Ward; mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-Responses
On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 01:26:04PM -0500, Camille K. Powell wrote:
Thanks, but I hope there's a better way. I just switched from EZMLM to Mailmain and I never had this problem. The auto-replies used to go to the person that posted the message, not to the list.
Actually both are wrong, auto-replies are supposed to go to the envelope sender, which is the list admin address.
Ezmlm is much smarter than mailman for bounce processing since it uses VERP and knows exactly which user bounced.
That said, unless you have a list that does reply to munging (forcing the reply-to to the list), auto responses should never ever reach the list, whether you're using ezmlm or mailman If an auto-responder is broken to the point that it answers receipients in the To/Cc fields, you can block the sender, but neither mailman or ezmlm can do anything about it.
If you are using reply-to munging, that may be another reason to consider not doing it (but the sending mail server is still at fault)
Marc
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