Jon Gardner wrote:

>I have a list admin who is using a Google distribution list as the admin email 
>for a Mailman list. Whenever Mailman sends an administrative email, the Google 
>server responds thus:
>
>>> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
>>> 
>>>  <email address of Google distribution list>
>>> 
>>> Technical details of permanent failure:
>>> Bounce messages should not be posted to a mailinglist.
>
>
>Apparently Google is misinterpreting the From/Return-Path address of 
>"mailman-boun...@..." as a bounce. Has anyone else run into this issue? 
>Obviously the workaround is to not use a Google distribution list as a Mailman 
>list admin, but I'd sorta like to figure out a real fix.


If Google is misinterpreting the envelope sender (Return-Path) as
meaning the message is a bounce DSN, that is Google's problem and up
to Google to fix.

If Google is looking at the Sender: header, see the FAQ at
<http://wiki.list.org/x/RoA9>, particularly the 2.1.14 note at the
bottom.

-- 
Mark Sapiro <[email protected]>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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