I have a script (on PP) which does all the right things, e.g. returns to
the envelope sender etc but I'm frequently surprised to see many of these
fail. Quite a few owners/admins of list software (any) forget to set up
aliases for the owner-list or list-request addresses, even big ISPs send
duff values (and then are unable to fix them....)
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Alan Thew alan.thew@???
Computing Services,University of Liverpool Fax: +44 151 794-4442
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Tim Cutts wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Chris Thompson wrote:
>
> > You shouldn't be doing anything different for "LISTSERV type messages" than
> > for any other message. Always send delivery failure reports to the return path
> > that came with the message (unless it is itself an error report, indicated
> > by having a null return path: in that case do not send a report at all).
> > It is all explained in RFC 822.
>
> OK, so my autoreply transports should have:
>
> to = "$return_path"
>
> set?
>
> How should I set the from field in these cases? Can I set it to "<>"? At
> the moment I'm setting it to "postmaster@$primary_hostname" although that
> means (I think) that I'll get delivery failures for my warnings, correct?
>
> Tim.
>
>
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