[spambayes-dev] RE: Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

[Tony Meyer]

[Tony]
>> This (and VERP) was the clue I needed, though (thanks!).  The 
>> (relevant) headers of the attached (bounced) messages are (for one 
>> such message):

[Seth]
> I didn't get an attachment either from the direct email from 
> you or from the list.  Try again?

Re-reading that, I see it's rather unclear.  By attached, I meant attached
to the bounce messages, not attached to the message I was sending.

> was the culprit, but you can't tell without the rest of it.  
> As an interesting aside, I don't seem to get any such bounce 
> messages when I post, unless I'm failing to notice them in my 
> spam folder.

Hmm...back to the 'just me' scenario.  Does anyone else get these?  It's
just for any message posted to spambayes at python.org (not this list).

> The scenario sounds like when you post to the list, the list 
> distributes the mail and then some broken MTA bounces back to 
> the original poster instead of the list.

Yes, I agree.

> This is the 
> most likely scenario for what you describe, and deleting the 
> user is definitely in order.  If you want to be really nice, 
> you could write a note to the postmaster for the bouncing 
> domain
[...]

I'm out of time this week, but will do this (both) next week.

> I'm still curious why only a few of the list postings get 
> distributed with a VERP address and the rest don't.  Any idea on this?

No, I've avoided commenting on that because I'm completely ignorant.  I'm
only guessing, but I presume that the spambayes lists are setup basically
the same as the other mail.python.org lists, so someone like Barry would be
the most knowledgeable, probably.  I'm guessing that they're not reading
this thread and/or are busy at the moment.

=Tony Meyer