[Mailman-Users] errors-to header

Greg Ward gward at mems-exchange.org
Thu Nov 8 17:26:50 CET 2001


On 08 November 2001, David Ball said:
> It seams that mailman is incorrectly setting the "Errors-To" field in
> some out going messages.  As far as I can tell, this only effects
> password reminders, where the "Errors-To" field is set to the admin
> address for one of our lists, instead of "mailman-owner".

Yeah, I looked into that several months ago.  It boils down to this: the
script that sounds out password reminders is lazy and stupid, and just
uses the first viable sender address it can get its hands on.

> Has anyone else come across this?
> Is this fixed in v2.0.6?

No.

> Is this fixed in v2.1a3?

Don't know, but I sure hope so!

        Greg




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