[Mailman-Users] Why does this happen???

Terri Oda terri at zone12.com
Sun Mar 15 07:11:04 CET 2009


James Reid wrote:
> Can someone please explain why I have a small number of users who
> occasionally send message to mylist-bounces at domain.com instead of to the
> correct address mylist at domain.com ?
> 
> I suspect that it is to do with the email client that they are using and
> whether they are replying or reply-to-all, but don't see it happening often
> enough to be able to figure it out (I'd like to add something to the sign-on
> message for the group to give people more info on how to avoid this
> problem).


I'm pretty sure this is an Outlook behaviour, probably related to this:

http://wiki.list.org/display/DOC/From+field+displayed+by+Microsoft+Outlook

There may be other clients that do it too, but I'm pretty sure that was 
the culprit the last time this happened with one of my lists.

  Terri


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