At 5:25 PM -0700 7/2/02, JC Dill wrote: ><x-flowed>On 11:55 AM 7/2/02, Michael C. Berch wrote: > >On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 11:35 AM, JC Dill wrote: > >> Errors-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Aha. Didn't notice that until Tom Neff pointed it out. > > > >You will definitely want to remove that from your postings. > >1) I can't remove something I didn't add. There is no errors-to entry >within my eudora.ini file, so this header is built by the mail client >itself. I can't find any way to get Eudora to not add it (although, by >making a manual entry in the .ini I can probably specify it to something >else, which wouldn't be any better than letting Eudora specify it). I've >been using Eudora for 6 years and sent and received many thousands and >thousands of emails in this time, and this is the first time someone has >tried to blame some mailing list behavior complaint I have on my choice of >mail client.
If your client isn't adding it, then perhaps your outbound SMTP relay is? All I know is, the header is already there by the time the message gets to GreatCircle.COM, and we leave it there. >This leads me to: > >2) I'm on literally dozens of lists (technical, hobby, high volume, low >volume, large and small), including lists run on majordomo (1), mailman, >listserv, listmanager, and yahoogroups. On none of these other lists do I >have the bounce problems I'm encountering on *this* list. > >Thus, it's still my belief that this list is improperly configured, not my >mail client. From this ObList-Manager's perspective, a discussion list >should *always* make itself the reply recipient for bounces of any messages >it receives and then retransmits (to addresses unknown to the original >sender), so that the list manager can address the problem - because ONLY >the list manager can address the problem (remove the stale addresses). Maybe everybody else in the world is stripping out Errors-To: headers on inbound list postings, or overwriting them with their own, but I doubt it. Maybe most other lists have fewer stale addresses than List-Managers; that's entirely possible, we aren't real aggressive about pruning the list, for lack of time. As MCB said, we'll see about stripping out Errors-To: headers on inbound postings, as a favor to you and everybody else. But this really _is_ your own problem, either with your client or your relay host. If you don't want weird bounces, you shouldn't be putting Errors-To: headers in your outgoing messages. -Brent -- Brent Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
