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

[Rafi Sadowsky]

On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> 
> > Den 22-Dec-97 18:08:39 skrev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton fרlgende 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
> 
> 
Luke
sorry but "Errors-To:" is the old convention that is used by your listserv
it dates back to when UUCP was the predominant tranport & the was no SMTP
envelope
these days it should be considered Old/Broken/Informational/whatever
but the bounce should go to the envelope adress - this is why when a list
has an owner- alsias sendmail 8 rewrites it with the owner- as envelope
sender
(sendmail 5 didn't & that is broken/old )

Hope this helps

	Rafi


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