On 06 November 2001, Camille K. Powell said:
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.
That may have something to do with the fact that ezmlm crafts a separate message, with a unique SMTP sender, for each message to each list member. That's more expensive (in temporary storage, bandwidth, and CPU) than Mailman's approach, but probably makes bounce-handling much simpler for ezmlm than it is for Mailman.
On reflection, I can't understand why a auto-responder would send auto-responses to the *list*. They should either go to the list admin address (if the autoresponder looks at the SMTP sender) or to the original sender (if it looks at the "From" header). Eg. here are some headers from my last post to this list: it do so!):
Return-path: <mailman-users-admin@python.org> [...skip Received headers...] To: "Camille K. Powell" <cpowell@asciences.com> Cc: mailman-users@python.org Subject: Re: [Mailman-Users] Auto-Responses Message-ID: <20011106131756.B17237@mems-exchange.org> [...] From: Greg Ward <gward@mems-exchange.org> Sender: mailman-users-admin@python.org Errors-To: mailman-users-admin@python.org X-BeenThere: mailman-users@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 (101270) Precedence: bulk List-Help: <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=help> List-Post: <mailto:mailman-users@python.org> List-Subscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>, <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=subscribe> List-Id: Mailman mailing list management users <mailman-users.python.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users>, <mailto:mailman-users-request@python.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/>
An autoresponder that receives this message should either look at the return-path (a header for the SMTP sender), or the "From" header, or the "Sender" header. In none of those cases would it auto-respond to mailman-users@python.org.
Hmmm: you don't happen to have "Reply-to the list" set on your list, do you?
Greg-- Greg Ward - software developer gward@mems-exchange.org MEMS Exchange http://www.mems-exchange.org