[Mailman-Developers] Fix for Postfix bounces

[Bob Puff@NLE]

Hi Barry,

> although I don't intend to add this fix to 2.0.7.

Umm, I would if I were you! <g>  It definitely was a major pain to get hundreds of bounces messages in my mailbox.  I never had the problem before, because I always had relatively clean lists.  This latest one ended up being a fairly dirty list, and my Postfix logs show -thousands- of bounces.

The kicker was that I could subscribe an address of "test@test.test", and Mailman wouldn't parse the bounce message.

I'm running the first release of Postfix 022801, which I downloaded 03/01/01.. :-)  I know there have been several patches since then, and perhaps this multipart/report thing may have changed, but I think it warrants parsing for.

Below is a sample message.

Bob

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--D55B717C10F.1004898218/list.nlenet.net
Content-Description: Notification
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the Postfix program at host list.nlenet.net.

I'm sorry to have to inform you that the message returned
below could not be delivered to one or more destinations.

For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>

If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
delete your own text from the message returned below.

                        The Postfix program

<tim@dazzlegraphics.com>: Name service error for dazzlegraphics.com: Host not
    found, try again

--D55B717C10F.1004898218/list.nlenet.net
Content-Description: Delivery error report
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Reporting-MTA: dns; list.nlenet.net
Arrival-Date: Thu,  1 Nov 2001 13:14:02 -0500 (EST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; tim@dazzlegraphics.com
Action: failed
Status: 4.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Name service error for dazzlegraphics.com: Host not
    found, try again

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