Brad Knowles wrote: > At 11:35 AM -0500 12/14/06, Ryan Steele wrote: > >> Yes, I realize this. But, there's no reason for the log to indicate >> that <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> was being considered as an indiscernable address. > > That's not quite what happened. Let's go back to an earlier message, > where you quoted: > >> And here is a message from Mailman's bounce log: >> >>> Dec 13 09:42:38 2006 (2202) bounce message w/no discernable addresses: >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Dec 13 09:42:38 2006 (2202) forwarding unrecognized, message-id: >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In the case of the first line, it's telling you that some sort of > message was received to the -bounces address for the list, but it's > not something that Mailman recognized as a bounce that it could > parse. But it did identify the message in question, although it > didn't specifically use the term "message-id". > > In the second line, it did explicitly use the term "message-id", but > it's still talking about the same message with the same problem, only > now it's telling you that it's forwarding this message to a human. > Ah, okay. I guess the fact that it first identified the message-id implicitly and then explicitly lead me to believe it thought that, in the case of the first line, it was identifying the indiscernible address. Thank you very much for clarifying. > >> It ought to have >> been >> able to extrapolate the real AOL address of the sender, don't you >> think? > > Whatever happened, I'm sure that Mailman would have been able to > determine who the claimed sender of the message was. The problem was > that, for some reason, it was delivered to the -bounces address for > the list (as opposed to some other address), and yet it was not > formatted like any bounce that Mailman knows how to recognize. > > The fault here almost certainly is not with AOL per se, nor with > Mailman. The fault lies in however a message that was intended to be > posted to the list was instead somehow delivered to the -bounces > address, and then dealing with the fallout from that situation. > I appreciate your thorough response. Thank you for your input!
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