Douglas Munoz wrote:

I think I found a solution, but wanted to check with the list to see if I am correct. I was poking around the excerpts and found that people were sending messages to my list "resume@foo.bar" with addresses such as "resume@foo.bar; resume@jobs.com; resume@frank.com; resume@blah.com; etc."

I think there's information in here but I can't see it. What do you mean "with address such as resume@foo.bar; resume@jobs.com; etc.", exactly? Do you mean messages that had

To: resume@foo.bar; resume@jobs.com

or

To: resume@foo.bar, resume@jobs.com

or

To: resume@foo.bar

and others with

To: resume@jobs.com

or what?

In the first case, I *think* that's an illegal address; AFAIK, ';' is not allowed in an email address; but if not, it's effectively the same as the second case.

In the second case, that's multiple addresses on one To: line, which includes the list address you gave, so shouldn't be a problem.

In the third case, the first message is to the list, so shouldn't cause a problem, but the second message is *not* to the list, and will definitely cause a problem.

What I did was go into list admin and under privacy options, did the following:

Ceiling on acceptable number of recipients for a posting >>> 1

This was changed from the default of 10. Should this solve the problem?

??? "Implicit destination" means, as has been said, "the list address is not mentioned in To: or Cc:"; the *number* of recipients doesn't affect and isn't affected by the *content* of recipients. No, this has nothing to do with the problem of seeing messages held for approval because of implicit destination addresses.

=Doug=

"Douglas Munoz" <dmunoz@meyersgroup.com> writes:

| I am running a very small, un-moderated list for the internal staff of my | company. It is basically set up to allow non-members (job seekers) to post | messages (resumes) to list members (HR). | | Every couple of days I will get notification that a message requires | administrative review. The reason given is: | | Reason: Message has implicit destination | | I can't seem to figure out what is going on. I have looked through the | message excerpt on each to find a common thread, but no luck.

When I saw this it was because of an To: header like this:

To: Friends <addr1; addr2; addr3; addr4; ... >

Where one of the addr's was the mailinglis address.

Hmm...perhaps there should be a "Don't warn on implicit addresses" switch?

    Lgb

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At 07:07 PM 1/2/01, Dan Mick wrote:

??? "Implicit destination" means, as has been said, "the list address is not mentioned in To: or Cc:"; the *number* of recipients doesn't affect and isn't affected by the *content* of recipients. No, this has nothing to do with the problem of seeing messages held for approval because of implicit destination addresses.

However, what I've seen is that if the address in the To: header does not match the canonical listname (case-sensitive) I got the "Implicit destination" error until I either put a case-insensitive regexp into the "equivalent addresses" field or turned off the "require explicit destination" setting.

Jim Trigg

On Sun, 31 Dec 2000, Dan Mick wrote:

This means the message has an implicit destination.

Does this term have a standardized or well-understood meaning outside of Mailman? If not, "list posting address does not appear in To: or CC: headers" would be a far more useful message.

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