[Mailman-Developers] MTA load, custom messages, bounces

Peter C. Norton spacey-mailman@lenin.nu
Fri, 7 Dec 2001 20:09:25 -0800


On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 08:01:57PM -0800, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
> On 12/7/01 6:40 PM, "Peter C. Norton" <spacey-mailman@lenin.nu> wrote:
> 
> > If you
> > don't get the message bounced back then that email address isn't really (or
> > at least always) bouncing.
> 
> Unless, of course, the postmaster implements bounces using a "not here any
> more" mailbot, which will strip all of the headers, not return as a bounce,
> and probably not be parsable by anything but a human, and maybe not then.

Sure it will.  The message will go back to the envelope sender, which will
be a cookied address.  I guess to be sure you'd want to put the address in
the header from, too.

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