[Mailman-Developers] Handling bounces correctly?

[Colin Mackinlay]

On Mon 04 Mar, Dan Mick wrote:
> 
> 
> > My cvs installation is sending me bounces rather than processing them.
> > 
> > Looking at the aliases automatically added to postfix there are two
> > duplicates:
> > 
> > test-admin    /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces test
> > test-bounces  /usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces test
> > 
> > This seems to be true for all lists. Am I missing something obvious?!
> 
> That's the way the aliases are supposed to be set up.
> "Sending me...rather than processing"... does that mean
> they're coming addressed to you specifically, or to the
> 'owner' set up for the 'test' list, or some other path?
they are coming addressed to test-bounces@mackinlay.demon.co.uk but are
being deposited into my mailbox whixh is the default for root and
anything else not addressed to a user with a postbox.


>
> Note: those literal aliases above are not correct; they need a
> '|' character, and should probably have quotes around the entire
> RHS.
Correct - this is what they look like
|test-bounces  "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman bounces test"



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Colin Mackinlay