On 12/11/07, Cyndi Norwitz wrote: > Now that my main lists were migrated to Mailman today, I discovered that > notifications of bounces are being sent to my catch-all mailbox. For some > reason, MM makes up a To: address. > > Here's an example: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No, Mailman is not making up this address as a "To:" address. This is an address format known as VERP (search the FAQ Wizard), and this is used as the envelope sender address for when you're sending out messages from the mailing list known as "immune" to the recipient address "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". What appears to be happening is that this recipient address is bouncing, thus causing a bounce (a.k.a., "non-delivery notice", or NDN) to be sent back to this VERP sender address. If your MTA understands the VERP format correctly, it should be passing back everything with an address of "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" back to your Mailman installation, where the standard Mailman bounce handling mechanism should take care of this problem. > Obviously, I can't make email filters for every single one of my > subscribers. But I'd like to see the bounce messages. Generally speaking, you should let Mailman handle the bounces messages automatically. > Is there a way to get MM to simply send the bounces to an address I > specify, or just to the list-owner which is specified elsewhere? That's an option you can take, if you decide to omit all the other standard aliases that need to be created for Mailman. You could just have all that traffic come back to you directly. However, your bigger problem is that your ISP needs to configure their MTA (postfix, sendmail, whatever) to properly understand VERP format so that you have the possibility of having these bounces sent back to wherever you want. Until the MTA is configured properly, and the aliases are set up properly, there's nothing else you can do. It all comes down to your ISP understanding how to operate and manage Mailman correctly, as well as understanding how to operate and manage all the related parts of an e-mail system. -- Brad Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
