Richi Plana wrote: > >I'm setting up Mailman for an organization where it's common practice to >have mail user agents automatically send back receipt notifications. In >other words, there's no getting around auto-receipt notification.
Bummer :-( >How does one handle the case where a subscriber's MUA automatically >sends Receipt replies to each email received including emails from >mailing lists? I've gone through the admin configuration scripts and >can't seem to find anything. Closest I found was in the Bounce options. To what address is the auto-receipt sent? If it is the envelope sender or the Sender: header, there may or may not be a problem. The receipt will go to the listname-bounces address and will be handled as a bounce. As long as it isn't VERPed, it will likely be unrecognized and will be discarded or forwarded to the list owner depending on bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner. If it is VERPed, it will be scored as a bounce for the VERPed address, which is a problem. If, as is more likely, it is sent to the Reply-To: or From:, it is a problem for the poster who gets all the receipts or for whatever the Reply-To: might be set to. In short, there's not really anything you can do with Mailman settings to compensate for this except turning off bounce_unrecognized_goes_to_list_owner in the one case where this might help. The real solution is to train the recipient MUA to not send a receipt for "Precedence: list" mail, or as long as the list is not fully personalized, to not send a receipt for mail of which the recipient is not a direct addressee. Or better yet, not send receipts at all. -- Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan ------------------------------------------------------ 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
