On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Scott Nolde wrote:
[problems with relaying]
Scot - yes. most mailing lists use a different address for bounces than
the list address - these addresses usually do accept mail, and either
get directed to the list operator, or to an automatic bounce processing
mechanism - they would have no affect on wether ScaryG's provider'ssmtp
relay server would accept the message for relaying from him. His problem
appears not to be related to his reverse DNS (which is usually not a
prerequisite for relaying), nor to the address he is trying to send to,
but to a confusion regarding which host he should be using as a
smarthost - his ordinary mail to this list appears to have been relayed
through a dfferrent server than the one the rejected message was trying
to get sent to.
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> I think the freebsd-questions list uses owner-freebsd-questions as a
> no-relay/reply-to kind of address. The emails from that list all have
> sender defined as owner-freebsd-questions so any bounces back to the
> server don't get re-distributed to the list.
>
> In this case, you can flush the bounces from the queue or develop a more
> robust filter file (which I'll need to do also) in order to bounce the
> message back to the originator of the email, not the mailing list.
>
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> Scott Nolde
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