>Point the sender to LISTSERV, and mail errors are going to be processed >by LISTSERV as commands, with the result that the original delivery error >is lost, and that you start a "mailing war" with the mailer in question >(probably a gateway) until it gets served off, after 10 attempts. Then >you'll be very happy because any mail coming from this gateway is >discarded unread. > >Point the sender to "listname-ERRORS@nodeid", and you'll have a lot of >fun if the list name is 8 characters; otherwise you'll need to create a >VM account by the name of the first 8 characters of "listname-ERRORS", >courtesy of the countless mailers which send mail directly, via NJE, to >the destination. Neither solution is satisfactory, personally I'd rather >opt for the contents of the "Sender=" keyword (if present), or the userid >of the main list owner if there's no "Sender="; that makes sure he >*does* take care to define a "Sender=" :-) ... So point the sender to a special, single, up-to-eight-bytes-long, "error absorber" address - one for every SERVER, not LIST - and let LISTSERV process them at its spare time, applying some heuristics as for what the original LIST name was, to tell the owner, or else - hand it over to Postmaster. ... Or point the sender to a special error box that *should* be defined for each list (possible today as an option, I know, but make LISTSERV handle this box automatically and forward rejections to appropriate people..). (Asbestos underwear on) Doron