[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-589913 ] Rejected mail not bounced back to poster

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Bugs item #589913, was opened at 2002-08-01 19:12
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Category: bounce detection
Group: 2.0.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Dan Harkless (dan_harkless)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Rejected mail not bounced back to poster

Initial Comment:
Howdy.  First off, forgive me if "bounce detection" isn't 
the right category for this -- it was the closest thing I 
could find.

Also, since I'm not a Mailman administrator, I'm unaware 
whether this might be a configuration problem rather 
than a bug, but the list admin said it was the latter, so 
I'm reporting it as such.

The version reported in X-Mailman-Version is "2.0.9-
sf.net".

The problem is that when messages are rejected, the 
text of the message isn't bounced back to the poster.  
This means that for people like me, who don't save 
copies of _all_ outgoing mail (I especially don't for 
mailing list posts, since I expect to get a copy from the 
list), the message has to be re-composed from memory 
when it's re-posted (with a fix for whatever caused it to 
be rejected).

The text of the original email should ALWAYS be 
included in bounce/reject messages.  This is just 
standard established email system behavior, going back 
decades.

In my particular case, I got a "Your message to <list> 
awaits moderator approval" message, saying that 
the "Message has a suspicious header", and then 
a "Request to mailing list <list> rejected", explaining 
that the problem was the "Content-Type: 
multipart/mixed".  I had done a MIME-based forward of a 
message from another list, rather than doing a plain-text 
forward.  Neither of those messages included the text of 
my original mail.

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