Gateway to python-list is generating bounce messages.

Grant Edwards invalid at invalid
Fri Sep 12 19:32:59 EDT 2008


On 2008-09-12, Matt Nordhoff <mnordhoff at mattnordhoff.com> wrote:

> I think you misunderstand. He's referring to the Sender
> header, not the From header. The messages the listbot sends
> out have a Sender header of
> "python-list-bounces+user=example.com at python.org" (supposing
> the subscriber's email address is user at example.com). Bounces
> should be directed to the bitbucket or list admin or whatever,
> not the user in the From header. kring.com just has a broken
> mail server.

So the statement below by Dennis Lee Bieber in message
97udndzTorVUPlXVnZ2dnUVZ_ojinZ2d at earthlink.com isn't actually
correct?

  >>Three: The bounce/ooo-reply is sent to the message author, not
  >>to any intermediate host(s). After all, on that end, it's
  >>normal email failure response -- notify the author of the
  >>message. It doesn't matter that the original message was posted
  >>on a Usenet newsgroup if that group is automatically relayed to
  >>members of a mailing list.

-- 
Grant




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