On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, David Kalins wrote: > My question: Why did this guy's mail bounce? Under what circumstances > does the OWNER-LISTNAME@HOSTNAME convention not work? Do we have to do > something on our system beside define the list owner(s) in the header of > the list??? The correct address to contact a list owner is "listname-request@host" and while this will usually first return a standard message explaining the difference between "listname-request@host" and "listserv@host", the message will nonetheless get through to the list owner(s). On LISTSERV, the owner-listname address is usually a reserved mailbox for mail delivery errors and equates to the address defined in the "Errors-to" keyword in the list header. When mail has been sent to the owner-listname addresses of lists I own, it is usually delivered to me with a short note saying that LISTSERV believes it to be a delivery error notification as it was sent to the reserved mailbox. I do not know, however, whether it is sent to me in my capacity as a list owner or in my capacity as the site maintainer of the lists. I do not know why it actually bounced, or whether it actually bounced at all (maybe LISTSERV sent a message saying that it was a reserved address and the remote administrator thought it was a bounce), or maybe the remote guy just typed it wrongly, as you suggest: > Thanks in advance. By the way, this person (the administrator of the remote > system) never sent me his bounced mail, so I don't know whether he's really > correct or whether he mis-typed something. I hope this is at least partly useful, John -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John Asher Information Systems Manager, AIESEC United Kingdom AIESEC LISTSERV Operations Team Leader International AGIS Support Team Member http://www.aiesec.org/uk/members/is/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-