Today I created several email lists. On all of them, when I send a message to the list (which I am subscribed to) I get the message with the correct "To:" and "From:" headers, but the "Sender;" header is set to listname-bounces@mydomain.com. For example if the list is mylist@mydomain.com, "Sender:" on any received messages is set to: mylist-bounces@mydomain,com. The message body is correct and To and From are correct.
How can I correct this.
Many thanks.
Thanks. Everett Johnson * NOTE:* Please do not send my email address to ANY company without my explicit permission. For example, DO NOT use it to send me a greeting card, news article, or anything thing else that will be emailed to me by someone other than you. Doing so has made my old evjohn.com domain name entirely unusable, and consumed many hours of time in recovering from the situation. Thanks.
Everett Johnson sent the message below at 19:07 5/22/2006:
Today I created several email lists. On all of them, when I send a message to the list (which I am subscribed to) I get the message with the correct "To:" and "From:" headers, but the "Sender;" header is set to listname-bounces@mydomain.com. For example if the list is mylist@mydomain.com, "Sender:" on any received messages is set to: mylist-bounces@mydomain,com. The message body is correct and To and From are correct.
How can I correct this. ---------------- End original message. ---------------------
That is the normal default behavior for Mailman.
What it means is that Mailman has sent the mail to the list on behalf of the person posting.
I'm not sure why you consider this a problem, Mailman is not the only application that manipulates this header, there are other mailing list managers and MUAs that do it also.
Dragon
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Why is it normal for a bounce processor to be the sender when there are no bounces? This confuses some list members.
Dragon wrote:
Everett Johnson sent the message below at 19:07 5/22/2006:
Today I created several email lists. On all of them, when I send a message to the list (which I am subscribed to) I get the message with the correct "To:" and "From:" headers, but the "Sender;" header is set to listname-bounces@mydomain.com. For example if the list is mylist@mydomain.com, "Sender:" on any received messages is set to: mylist-bounces@mydomain,com. The message body is correct and To and From are correct.
How can I correct this. ---------------- End original message. ---------------------
That is the normal default behavior for Mailman.
What it means is that Mailman has sent the mail to the list on behalf of the person posting.
I'm not sure why you consider this a problem, Mailman is not the only application that manipulates this header, there are other mailing list managers and MUAs that do it also.
Dragon
Venimus, Saltavimus, Bibimus (et naribus canium capti sumus)
-- Thanks. Everett Johnson * NOTE:* Please do not send my email address to ANY company without my explicit permission. For example, DO NOT use it to send me a greeting card, news article, or anything thing else that will be emailed to me by someone other than you. Doing so has made my old evjohn.com domain name entirely unusable, and consumed many hours of time in recovering from the situation. Thanks.
Everett Johnson said the following on 5/22/2006 10:53 PM:
Why is it normal for a bounce processor to be the sender when there are no bounces? This confuses some list members.
Because, *should the message bounce to a user*... instead of the original poster getting the bounce notification, the bounce-processor will.
This is why this is the way it is. It is perfectly acceptable, and preferred, behaviour.
You think your users are confused now? If this behaviour wasn't there, they'd be even more confused upon getting notified of bounces for email to people they (probably) don't know.. ;-)
Best, --Glenn
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." ~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Everett Johnson wrote:
Why is it normal for a bounce processor to be the sender when there are no bounces? This confuses some list members.
It is done because there are/used to be non-compliant MTAs that would return bounces to the Sender: instead of the envelope sender. There was an extensive discussion of this last month beginning at http://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2006-April/050695.html.
Also see the FAQ on this at http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq02.003.htp.
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