'lo, On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 10:43:45AM +0200, Bastian Venthur wrote: > Frans Pop wrote: > > Please do _not_ use a mail@ or root@ or daemon@ address to send mail to > > debian addresses. They will be filtered out as such addresses are > > considered to be reserved for administrative and system accounts. > > > > I've attached 2 mails that were filtered out because of this today. > > Isn't this rather a limitation of the software used or a > misconfiguration? I'm not very experienced with the problem but reading > the manpage, I think the filter is a bit too simple. Why filter eg every > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail instead of only *relevant* mails like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
We regard it as a configuration ;-). There are too many servers out there sending bounces without an empty return path. Using the FROM_DAEMON check means that we only let through a few bounces, rather than a whole lot of them. > > > > > See also man procmailrc(5), under MISCELLANEOUS. > > Done. But please be aware that this problem also applies to our users > using the BTS. Every time they use one of the problematic mails, they > get an error message -- I think you cannot expect our users to > subordinate to those limitations, could you? > > I'll change the mail address for debian purposes as soon as possible, > but please consider that most users will not, so the problem should be > fixed on the server-side. The last time I looked into this (although I do admit it was a while ago), there were still a large number of boune messages that looked liked this. I can't forsee this having changed. Pasc (with his non-razor-bladed listmaster hat on) -- Pascal Hakim 0403 411 672 Do Not Bend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]