How about an Inbound rule on the list itself. this is available in v7.13 Eric S ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Wolf / CompuService" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 9:34 AM Subject: [IMail Forum] List does not follow inbound rules...
> Imail 7.13 list problem: > > I have a list that we'll call the "abcd_forum" here. I dislike return > receipt or read receipt requests to my lists and want to block them. I see > that most of those requests follow one of two formats in the message header > so I create an inbound rule for the list that forwards the message to > another mailbox if the message contains a return receipt request. Seems > simple enough. The mailbox it is forwarded to has an Auto Response message > that bounces back to the sender telling them to remove the receipt request > and re-post the message. Simple enough? It doesn't work! > > It seems that since the list address is an alias instead of a user the > inbound rules are not checked. An inbound rule on a list just doesn't work. > To test this I created a user that forwards incoming messages to the list > alias.. like this: username "abcd" forwards all messages to the list alias > "abcd_forum". I then changed my rules to be inbound domain processing > rules. If I post a message to "abcd" it is distributed to "abcd_forum" > properly, and if I send a message requesting a return receipt to the "abcd" > user it is bounced back as I desire. If I do the same exact process but > send to the "abcd_forum" address the second message doesn't get bounced and > does get posted to the list with the return receipt request. I have the > inbound rule in both the domain processing and list rules. No go. > > Then my next thought would be to get all the users to post to the username > "abcd" instead of the list alias "abcd_forum" and my rule would then work. > The problem is that when the list actually sends out the messages the reply > to: in the header is to the list alias "abcd_forum" and not the user "abcd". > My work around is foiled by this "reply to" problem. Even if the message is > sent to the user "abcd" when the message comes out of the list the reply to > will be set to "abcd_forum" instead of just "abcd" and that message will not > be checked if the user replies to that message. > > Has anyone found a way to bounce back messages to a list that request a > return receipt? I can do it 'half way', but that's all. > > Appreciate your help! > > -Joe > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
