* Gerrit Pape <p...@smarden.org>: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:34:25PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Gerrit Pape writes ("Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs"): > > > I can't help, I don't understand. I yesterday followed up to a mail > > > that was additionally addressed to the <debian-c...@lists.debian.org> > > > mailing list and got an automatic reply telling me that the mail cannot > > > be delivered because I'm not subscribed. Not a bounce, but an automatic > > > reply to the address in the From: header, not the envelope sender > > > address. How do you call this? > > > > I would call it a "bounce". > > I don't. Last time I checked, non-delivery reports aka delivery > notifications aka bounces aka auto replies should work on the envelope > only, i.e. send the notification aka bounce to the envelope sender > address, ideally with an empty return path.
Exactly. That and nothing else is a bounce. > I think it has something to do with loops, automatic mailers, and not > parsing the headers as that is a lot more prone to errors. Yep. > But this is long ago, think might have changed since. Nope -- Ralf Hildebrandt Geschäftsbereich IT | Abteilung Netzwerk Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Benjamin Franklin Hindenburgdamm 30 | D-12203 Berlin Tel. +49 30 450 570 155 | Fax: +49 30 450 570 962 ralf.hildebra...@charite.de | http://www.charite.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100907143321.ge17...@charite.de