Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:29:12 EDT
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On Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:11:19 -0700 Randy Ryan said:
>For the last 4-5 months, the address owner-<listname> address appears to be
>broken for Maelstrom, running 1.8d listserv. The mail doesn't bounce, but it
>does disappear into a black hole and doesn't get delivered to the owner of the
>list.
If you have Auto-Delete running this is pretty much correct.
>I thought perhaps owner-<listname> address was being phased out, but learned
>recently than many bounce processors attempt to deliver to that address, which
>I caught after a subscriber emailed me a wierd hop bounce.
<As documented> the owner-listname address is for error handling. If you
want a generic address for people to contact the list owner you should be
using listname-request .
>The response I got back from the listmaster is:
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>>Interesting. Test mail I sent to SJUOWNER and SJU-X did quietly vanish,
>>which looks like a problem to me too. After sleeping on it, I realized
>>the address must work since that's the one used by Auto-Delete. You
>>might try running this past LSTOWN-L to see if there's something we're
>>missing here. My copy of listkeyw.memo says non-decipherable mail (which
>>mine was) should have been passed on to the owner.
With Auto-Delete= Yes,Full-Auto, it would be trashed, which is also
as documented.
Nathan
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