[Mailman-Users] Mailadress in Header

Christian Vierkant c_v at gmx.net
Sun Jul 17 22:33:15 CEST 2005


Thank you very much for this complete explanation! I think you're 
absolutly right. Because I don't have any performance issues this 
solution is ok for me. But I will ask the provider too.

Regards,

Christian

Mark Sapiro schrieb:

>Christian Vierkant wrote:
>  
>
>>I have a little issue with all my mailing lists. For every mailinglist 
>>there is always one fixed user (in the sample below 
>>some.user at somewhere.com) appearing in all outgoing messages.
>>
>>We are using Mailman 2.1.2 with Postfix 2.0.14. Here a sample from a 
>>mail sent to a different user than in this header:
>>
>>[...]
>>Received: (qmail 17852 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2005 06:45:29 -0000
>>Received: from unknown (HELO mailmanserver.somewhere.com) 
>>(123123@[111.111.111.111])
>>         (envelope-sender <list-bounces at somewhere.com>)
>>         by smtp.provider.com (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
>>         for <some.user at somewhere.com>; 9 Jun 2005 06:45:29 -0000
>>Received: from mailmanserver.somewhere.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
>>   by mailmanserver.somewhere.com (Postfix) with ESMTP
>>   id 0C14870BF; Thu,  9 Jun 2005 08:45:29 +0200 (CEST)
>>[...]
>>
>>Does this look like a mailman, postfix or provider problem?
>>    
>>
>
>It looks like qmail at smtp.provider.com.
>
>Presumably, <some.user at somewhere.com> is a list member even though not
>the recipient of this example. It appears that Mailman on
>mailmanserver.somewhere.com is delivering the post to Postfix on the
>same machine in an SMTP transaction with multiple recipients. Postfix
>adds its Received: header and then delivers the post in one or more
>SMTP transactions, each with one or more recipients. This particular
>transaction was from Postfix on mailmanserver.somewhere.com to qmail
>on smtp.provider.com and presumably had multiple recipients, one of
>whom was the recipient of this example and another of whom was
><some.user at somewhere.com>. Qmail then added its Received: header and
>picked one of the multiple recipients to name in "for ..." even though
>there were other recipients as well.
>
>If this scenario is correct, and this issue is significant, you could
>set
>
>VERP_DELIVERY_INTERVAL = 1
>
>in mm_cfg.py to cause all posts to be sent to one user per SMTP
>transaction, but see
>http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py?req=show&file=faq04.012.htp
>for performance considerations.
>
>--
>Mark Sapiro <msapiro at value.net>       The highway is for gamblers,
>San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
>
>  
>



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