[Mailman-Users] Bounces

[Richard Barrett]

At 17:55 23/04/2003, Thomas von Hassel wrote:
>How does mailman read bounce messages ? ..i'm running Mailman with
>courier-mta, and everything works great except bounce processing fine.. ?
>
>/thomas
>
>--
>  itunes isn't playing right now

Depends on which version of Mailman you are using. A different mail alias 
is used on the outgoing mail "envelope" as sender in each case and this 
leads to bounces, which should come back to that alias, being handled by 
the MM-version specific mail delivery script; take a look at the mail 
aliases generated for a list to see what I mean, assuming you are running, 
say Sendmail, as your MTA:

MM 2.0.x uses a sender of <listname>-admin and the script 
$prefix/scripts/mailowner is used to deliver the mail to MM, being called 
via $exec-prefix/mail/wrapper by your MTA.

MM 2.1.x uses a sender of<listname>-bounces and the script 
$prefix/scripts/bounces is used to deliver the mail to MM, being called via 
$exec-prefix/mail/mailman by your MTA.

Matters may be further complicated with MM 2.1.x if you turn on VERP'ing as 
this "personalises" the sender alias but the <listname>-bounces just has 
the user-specific VERP'ish stuff tacked onto it.