Rich Kulawiec writes: > Any incoming mail message whose putative sender matches: > > do-not-reply@ > > and which is directed to any of the Mailman standard aliases can > be rejected (not bounced [1]) with SMTP status 550 (extended status > 5.7.1) since either: > > (a) it's a forgery, therefore there's no point in letting > Mailman attempt to emit a reply -- or even in accepting > the message to begin with. > (a) it's not a forgery, therefore there's no point in trying > to reply to it.
You have to be careful, though. For several years on one of my lists I had a subscriber whose address was something like (I don't recall exactly) "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", which was a perfectly valid address and at which he/she/it did receive mail and from which he/she/it would reply. ------------------------------------------------------ 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
