Drew Tenenholz wrote:
One newly added user is having trouble posting. I believe Mailman may be doing something I didn't expect, and we've been able to compensate for it, but I'd like to know if I'm going crazy or not. I've set up the poster with a series of email account settings as follows:
user@subsidiary.org is an alias on the subsidiary.org mail server that simply points to userfirst.userlast@isid.org. There is no mailbox for this user on the subsidiary.org server. They have a real email account on the mail server "isid.org" which they can access via both POP and webmail.
When they send mail from the webmail system, their account settings for the 'From:' and 'Reply-To:' addresses are user@subsidiary.org.
If I send a message directly to myself from their account, the From and Reply-To addresses are correct.
When the message arrives at Mailman 2.1.9, the From address has dramatically changed into user@fullMX.record.expanded.edu What gives!
To be complete, there really is a server at fullMX.record.expanded.edu which handles mail (not for this user),
The user isn't the issue. Does this MX handle mail for the Mailman list?
but I don't know where/why Mailman should be doing some sort of lookup and replace the "@subsidiary.org" with the full MX name. So, we updated the Privacy>Sender Filters (and General>Moderators) had to include this address and everything is working.
Why do you think it's Mailman that's rewriting the From:? I assure you Mailman is not doing it.
The real question is why did this happen? Is it expected? Has it been changed in later versions? If there is a FAQ or something to tell me how this works, I'd love to read it.
This has nothing at all to do with Mailman. Some MUA/MTA/MDA in the delivery path from the user to the mailman server is doing this.
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