SAMBA DIGEST PROBLEM: Re: Message not deliverable (Forward Msg)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:

> Den 22-Dec-97 18:08:39 skrev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton følgende om "SAMBA DIGEST PROBLEM: Re: Message not deliverable (Forward Msg)":
> > On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> 
> >> Isn't it about time to fix the envelop sender address of message from the
> >> mailing list so bounces don't end up on the mailing list? It's been broken
> >> for all the time I've been subscribed, which is more than a year now.
> 
> >> From samba at samba.anu.edu.au Sat Dec 06 03:00:09 1997
> 
> > rask, it _is_ fixed.  the problem is not the mailing list, it's the broken
> > software at the recipient's end which ignores the Errors-to: and all those
> 
> How can you expect mail software to magically guess the intention of
> non-standard headers that you make up yourself? You'd be just as well off
> with something like

i haven't read the respective rfcs, but i understand that there is a
convention (Errors-to: or something) which broken (old, badly written)
email server software is unaware of.

samba, as a standard list server, complies with these conventions.

luke