Posts to user list not going through ?

ben darby ben at cvrse.com
Sun Dec 31 02:12:22 UTC 2006


* Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> Has anyone examined Received: headers to see how the messages are
> getting to you? Are they actually coming through the list, or from
> somewhere else?
> 
> As long as the server bouncing the messages respects the Return-Path
> header, and your messages are sent to the list only, you shouldn't
> see bounces. If you "CC to sender" or "reply to all" by default you
> might get a bounce also if the bogus address shows up in almost any
> header in the original. That's all determined by your mail client. And
> of course the server doing the bouncing could just be broken.
> 
> It should be pretty easy to tell what's what from the headers of one of
> the bounced messages, but for some reason I'm not seeing any of them....

not sure why you are not recieving any of them, but they are coming
directly from the beachbum-server and not following the reply-to: but
the from: header, someone could notify the list admin to remove
peter at gizmoman.net or just add:

:0
* ^From.*administrator at beach-bum-solutions.com*
/dev/null

to your .procmailrc :)

-- 
ben darby
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