[Mailman-Developers] effects of not rewriting the Sender header

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Wed Jul 12 18:19:59 CEST 2006


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On Jul 12, 2006, at 11:54 AM, James Ralston wrote:

> As a follow-up to the Sender header discussion back on 2006-04/05...
>
> On 2006-06-17, we disabled Sender header rewriting at our site, using
> the attached patch.
>
> Since then, we've received no complaints whatsoever from our users
> about bounces not being caught, and the complaints about recipients
> using Outlook seeing "bounce" addresses have ceased.
>
> Based on our experiences, I'd strongly recommend that this patch be
> applied to the official Mailman distribution.

Thanks for the feedback James.  Have you seen any problems with  
processing legitimate bounces to addresses that don't exist?

- -Barry

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