Sent: Sat 3/13/2004 12:36 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [tslug] Re: Mailman config problem, the sequel
> Mailman seems to work a-OK now, except for one odd problem:
any
> listserv-related message that the moodle server sends gets the
"To:"
> return address wrong if the recipient has a truman.edu address-
the
> return address incorrectly ends in "truman.edu," rather than
in
> "moodle.truman.edu."
This, alas, is not a problem of your
configuration or one that you can
fix. The problem is that every
message that goes through Truman's
central mail servers gets its headers
re-written if they end in
.truman.edu. Anyone with a .truman.edu
address that gets this message
from tslug will notict that the Reply-to:
header is set to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of the correct
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Way back in the old days, when we first connected
internet-capable
personal computers to the fledgling smtp server on campus,
this policy
made sense. The reason was that those early PCs would send
out mail
from a fully qualified hostname, e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED], but
had
no incoming smtp server that could get a reply. Rewriting the
headers
to point to a central incoming server that had an alias lookup
feature
made it possible for replies to go to an address where they could
be
received.
The policy still stands, despite the argument that
nowadays many
people have boxes capable of running incoming smtp servers and
valid
reasons for doing so. Your moodle server is a perfect
example.
--
Jon Beck,
PhD
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Assoc
Professor, Computer
Science
2162 Violette Hall
Truman State
University
660.785.7233
Kirksville, MO
63501
http://vh216202.truman.edu/
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