Lars Bungum wrote:
>I'm running a list of about 500 people, and have encountered a strange
>problem lately, namely that bounce messages from an address
>
>"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" are being sent to the list. The subject is like this:
>
>Autoreply: {digest-subject}
>
>and body like this:
>"This email adress do not exist"
>
>so it appears to be bouncing the digest. The address does not exist,
>and obviously is not a subscribed to the list. And the posting policy
>is subscribers only. A lot of messages are being held for moderation
>because the posters are not members (spam). Still this one comes
>through.
>
>In the mailman/logs/post log file it just says that [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>posted to the list at this or that time.
>
>I'm both bewildered and estranged - what is this? And how do I find out
>why it is allowed to post to the list?
Here's a possible scenario:
A digest is sent to a subscribed address that is no longer valid.
The receiving MTA is broken and sends a "bounce" message to the
Reply-To: address of the digest (instead of the envelope sender,
Sender: or Errors-To: address) which is the list.
Either the envelope sender or some header you use in validating the
poster contains the address the digest was sent to, so the post is
allowed.
--
Mark Sapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
------------------------------------------------------
Mailman-Users mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users
Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py
Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/
