A while ago, I posted a message to this list about a number of sites
bouncing mail from my list because they were refusing the return address. I
got a few responses, mostly along the lines of "why bother." I want to
bother because it is a continuing problem and because I really like to know
how and why things work the way they do. Now I am getting bounced ack and
confirmation messages when some subscribers post or try to change
subscription settings. I think their ISPs have switched mail server software.

I think I have the why figured out -- someone please let me know if this is
right -- I think that because the address of my listserv installation (on
Windows 95, but I hope to install the NT version soon) wraps to two lines
(see the following example) that some mail servers are unable to deal with
it and use only the first line, which is just the text description of the
address. The mail from the list doesn't bounce because the From: field is
populated by the email address of the sender, which is typically much
shorter than this. So, I am right?

-> Received: from listserv.rsdnet.org ([38.252.197.16]) by paloma.mwimages.com
->           (post.office MTA v2.0 0813 ID# 0-12890) with ESMTP id AAA131
->           for <[log in to unmask]>; Sun, 22 Jun 1997 06:27:49 -0400
-> Date:         Sun, 22 Jun 1997 04:28:03 -0400
-> From:         "L-Soft list server at RSDNET.ORG (1.8c)"
->               <[log in to unmask]>
-> Subject:      Output of your job "xxxx"
-> To:           XXXXX XXXXXXXXXX <[log in to unmask]>

So how do I deal with this? Is it possible to tell the listserv
installation that I want the from information reversed, so that the address
comes first and the descriptive text would then wrap to the second line? Or
is it possible to shorten the descriptive text so both the address and the
text will always appear on the same line?

Thanks for the help.
Karen Strauss