Brad Knowles wrote: >> Obviously Mailman is forwarding a sample bounce in the probe message. > > No, Mailman didn't. Some user did.
And that user is faking a Mailman probe message? >> Bounces can (and, regarding a mailing list, most probably will) >> countain more than one failed address. > > No, bounces for a mailing list should not contain more than one > failed address, especially if it's a probe message -- those are > always sent out to just one specific user. As far as I see, Mailman was sending out non-VERPed messages to that list's users. When those messages are non-deliverable, the MTA will send a bounce back to the listname-bounces address, and that bounce will contain many or all non-deliverable addresses, as it's only one outgoing message delivered to many recipients. That's just how it works. Then Mailman will send out a (VERPed) probe message, and - as far as I can tell from the message quoted by Michael - attach a sample bounce. This bounce does not only contain the one failed address the probe is send to, but also other failed addresses. (Sure, Michael or someone else could have faked that probe message with an attached bounce, but why should he?) >> "A bounce sample is attached below." > > All of which is totally bogus. See above. I don't think so. -thh ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list Mailman-Users@python.org 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/ Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-users/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq01.027.htp
