• Yogesh Subhash Talekar <yogesh@unipune.ernet.in>:

hi,

I have seen that if a mail is sent to Mailman list and if some of the recipients are invalid then those mails bounce back to a address which is like "bounces-listname@mylistdomain.com"?

Now this keeps the sender in the dark about who received the mail and who didn't!

As long as mailman knows: it's fine

So is there anyway so that the sender can receive the note about which memebers of the list failed to get the mails? Or is it possible to send the bounced mail to the sender??

What for? It's not the in the sender's interest. The list admin get those.

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At 12:52 AM +0530 2004-07-06, Yogesh Subhash Talekar wrote:

I have seen that if a mail is sent to Mailman list and if some of the recipients are invalid then those mails bounce back to a address which is like "bounces-listname@mylistdomain.com"?

Yup.

Now this keeps the sender in the dark about who received the mail and who didn't!

So is there anyway so that the sender can receive the note about which memebers of the list failed to get the mails? Or is it possible to send the bounced mail to the sender??

You can look in the logs, but short of making extensive 

modifications to the system so that all bounces come back to both addresses, there's no way to do this. Moreover, most senders don't want/can't handle recipient bounces, since there is nothing they can do about them.

If I send a message to the mailman-users list and I receive a 

bounce from fred@example.com, the only person who can do anything with this is the mailing list administrator.

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