WG: [Mailman-Developers] Bug: X-BeenThere on admin messages

[Jeb Bateman]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:19:43PM +0100, John Read wrote:
> I am surprised about this request. I have always seen the function
> of the -admin address for mails entering mailman as THE specific
> interface to the administrator. If they are bounced to the normal
> address, you have removed this administrator interface, and
> subscribers cannot reach him any more.

Of course... I didn't mean the bouncing of -admin would be automatic.
(I just got a message to -admin which should have been sent to the
list, and resent it manually; that's all.)

The bug is basically that Mailman silently discards this email because
of the incorrect X-BeenThere header in -admin messages...

> >>>The problem is that if someone mistakenly sends a message to the
> >>>-admin address when it was supposed to be the list, I would like to
> >>>just bounce (resend) their message to the list address.  However, when
> >>>I did this today, the message was *silently discarded* by Mailman (not
> >>>held for approval, or logged anywhere).

-jeb

PS: Sorry for the delay replying.  
I was out of town for a few days.