[Mailman-Developers] Sender field

Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com
Mon, 2 Apr 2001 00:15:55 -0400


On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 10:30:44PM -0400, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> My interpretation of this section is that since regular deliveries use
> the From: field supplied by the original author, but it is Mailman's
> responsibility for sending the mail through the system, the Sender:
> field ought to be the human responsible for list maintenance,
> e.g. list-owner or list-admin.  It has proved to be more practical to
> point Sender: at list-admin so that bounce processing can take first
> crack at the message, sending it on to the list moderators if that
> fails.

I concur entirely, both with your interpretation, and your
implementation.

For whatever *that's* worth.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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