Sat, 25 Feb 1995 16:44:03 -0500
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[Kathryn A. Smith]
> I have received two error messages sent by this same person on my new
> home site in Poland. From what I can tell, her server somehow or other
> comes up with [log in to unmask] instead of
> [log in to unmask] Why does it do that? Can we fix it?
Some rotten mail gateways only keep one "return" address, instead of the
several that Internet mail uses. The choice they usually make is to keep
the "envelope sender," which from LISTSERV is "owner-LISTNAME@HOST" (fine
behavior, follows all the RFC's, etc.). The address she wants to reply to,
on the other hand, is in "Reply-To:", which the gateway has thrown out.
Thus the problem is at her end, not yours. However, if she is important to
you, you can tell LISTSERV to break the rules and put the list submission
address in the envelope sender field, using "Safe= No" in your list header.
Then, when she hits "reply," she'll be replying to the list instead of the
list's error mailbox. The downside is that the envelope sender is where
properly configured mail transport agents send error reports, and by doing
this you rely heavily on LISTSERV's loop detection logic to stop them from
being distributed to the list. You could always try it for a while and see
how it works. I have "Safe=No" on a couple of lists here, and it works out
fine. But they're pretty small lists.
Norm
--
"War dims hope for peace"
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