At Thu, 15 May 2014 18:36:05 -0700 Mark Sapiro <m...@msapiro.net> wrote:
> > On 05/15/2014 05:38 PM, Robert Heller wrote: > > > > It wasn't any of these. I believe I have figured out what happened. The > > poster > > did something 'bad': instead of creating a fresh message he located an old > > message with a return address of the list and did a reply and then edited > > *some* of the headers: only some of the 'visible' ones and did not delete > > the > > 'hidden' ones, which confused the list server. > > > > I discovered this when saw dkim log messages suggesting that the server the > > message came from might be pretending to be my server and then when I > > looked > > at the headers of another message from this poster that had headers it > > should > > not have had. > > > The only header that should cause an automatic discard is X-BeenThere: > with the list's posting address. MUA's will normally not copy this into > a 'reply', so the poster must have generated the reply in some other way > like 'bounce' or 'remail' to the list. I don't know *exactly* what he did, but 'bounce' or 'remail' are probably likely. I suspect it is a case of having learned how to use a hammer, it was easier to just use a hammer for everything, not just nails, but screws, nuts, bolts, etc. :-) The poster is now investigating the new world of the 'address book' as a way of keeping track of possible addresses to use to send messages... > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 / hel...@deepsoft.com Deepwoods Software -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ () ascii ribbon campaign -- against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org -- against proprietary attachments ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org