On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:54:52PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Hi Karsten, > > Quoth [email protected], > > I'm getting a number of messages apparently sent or resent from > > bounce-debian-user. I've also had some significant procmail recipie > > problems in recent weeks resulting in inappropriate message rejection, > > particularly from mailing lists. > > I believe that the debian list server sets the envelope sender for email > from the list to bounce-debian-user-<email address>@list.debian.org (or > something). If a properly configured MTA has to bounce a message, the > list server will know what address is giving it grief, and if it happens > enough times, which to remove. At least, that's my (admittedly limited) > understanding. > > I have seen at least one bounce from a badly configured MTA which sent > the mail back to me (the From: address), but did not include it's own > from address. Mutt, for some reason, seemed to put the > bounce-debian-user address in the From: field when it displayed the > mail. Maybe this is what you are seeing.
me too. in ~/.procmail/procmail.log i see >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 06 12:46:25 2000 Subject: Re: ppp/wvdial help! Folder: /home/will/Mail/debian-user 2357 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 06 13:02:02 2000 Subject: server 10/06/00:13.02 system check Folder: root 1120 so it's apparently not mutt. i guess that this'll help cut down on the my.netvigator.com idiocy? -- things are more like they used to be than they are now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** http://www.dontUthink.com/
