He how to I get out of this group... Al Iverson wrote on 11/7/2004, 7:06 PM:
> lee wrote: > > > > > Thanks for your interest Al; > > > > Sorry about the wonky line wrap in my last mail to this list. > > > > Sure, below is a url showing the message source as shown in Mozilla > > Thunderbird on a mailgust mail sent out using the sendmail binary. The > > mail was originally emailed into the list by me from Thunderbird. The > > particular list is set to make the Reply-To header show the list > > address, although that's not relevant here. The Mailgust install used > > here is the standard latest release, free from my current 'experimental > > coding'. > > > > I might also add here that Thunderbird shows the same form of > > From > > header at the top of all message sources I look at, irrespective of any > > mailing list or individual emailer, but from what I understand this > > isn't the > > From > > header I / we have referred to earlier ?? ... > > Yeah, same on Mozilla for me, for any message I check, so I don't think > it's having an impact on the issue. > > > anyway, here's the url of the message source: > > > > http://www.incelsite.com/fullheaders.txt > > If I understand correctly, the issue is bounces being distributed to > list members, yes? > > Is the list locked so that only members can post? Verified by email > address? > > Can you post one of those bounces to a text file, just like you did with > the example post? > > My thoughts would be to change the return path as to not be the list > posting address, or to change the list so that only members may post. > > If you're still seeing the issues after that happens, then it feels like > you have some list members with a wonky MTA or MUA that is doing some > bad stuff. I see that often enough on our mailings (avg 1-2 mil a day) > that we had to put some extensive automation in place to handle > misdirected bounces, as well as the usual other garbage like out of > office replies. > > It could also be caused by some poorly-designed spam filter, that's > helpfully trying to bounce perceived spam, but is parsing the headers > wrong and sending it to the wrong person (though in a situation like > that, there's really not a right person to send it to; a spam filter > like that does little more than pound innocents with misdirected spam > and bounces). > > In a situation like this your only recourse may be to hunt down and > remove the offending list members. > > Regards, > Al Iverson >
