[Mailman-Developers] thoughts on bounce processing

[Msquared]

On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 04:50:14PM -0400, James Ralston wrote:

> I suppose Mailman could stuff the original envelope sender header into
> another header (e.g., "X-Mailman-Original-Env-Sender") and then pull it
> back out when processing a bounce, but that smells rather hackish to me.
> 
> Perhaps VERP could be enhanced to encode both the original envelope
> sender and the recipient?

I suppose this is more for MM3, but if the origina message IDs are
preserved in bounce messages perhaps MM could keep a database of all
messages that went through it including IDs.  When a bounce comes back it
could pull the original sender from that database and notify them, the
list administrator, someone's next of kin, or whoever depending on what
had been configured.

Just thinking aloud...  :o)

Regards, Msquared...