[Mailman-Users] From Header Changed

[Dennis Putnam]

It appears that hotmail offers a free relay. Is that a viable alternative?

On 2/24/2013 3:01 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> Mark Sapiro wrote:
>
>> On 2/13/2013 6:11 AM, Dennis Putnam wrote:
>>> I have not made any changes (intentionally) to mailman in many months
>>> but suddenly mail from the list has listname-bounces as the from header
>>> rather then the original poster.
>
> It turns out that the OP is using a Yahoo server as a smarthost to relay
> Mailman's mail. It is Yahoo that is rewriting the From: header.
>
> I finally did some experimentation with sending via a Yahoo server. This
> is what I found
>
> I connect to smtp.mail.yahoo.com:465 (SSL) and authenticate with my
> Yahoo address.
>
> I issue a MAIL FROM. If the address is not a verified address on my
> Yahoo account, the MAIL FROM is rejected with '553 From address not
> verified - see
> http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/manage/sendfrom-07.html'
> (note, this URL doesn't exist, but other help indicates you have to send
> from addresses which are verified for your account. It seems the OP has
> realized this and has verified the listname-bounces address on his Yahoo
> account so Mailman's mail will be accepted.
>
> If the address is verified, I can proceed and send the mail. The result
> depends on whether the From: address in the mail is or is not a verified
> address on my Yahoo account.
>
> If the From: is a verified address, the From: header is not rewritten,
> but the envelope sender address is rewritten to the From: header
> address. In the case of Mailman, this will break bounce processing as
> bounces will return to the poster and not to Mailman.
>
> If the From: is not a verified address, the entire From: is replaced
> with one containing only the verified envelope sender address, i.e., the
> listname-bounces address in the Mailman case. This is what is apparently
> happening in the OP's case and appears to be a change at Yahoo.
>
> The implication of this is that Yahoo is simply not viable as a
> smarthost relay for Mailman's outgoing mail.
>
> Note that Gmail/googlemail is not a viable alternative either as
> Gmail/googlemail always rewrites both the envelope sender address and
> the From: header address to the Gmail/googlemail address used to
> authenticate to the server. Gmail/googlemail at least leaves the
> original display name in the From: header, but that's all.
>
>
>>> Also, I'm guessing this is related, bounced messages are now being
>>> handled as uncaught bounces.
>>>
>>> The attached message was received as a bounce, but either the bounce
>>> format was not recognized, or no member addresses could be extracted
>>> from it.  This mailing list has been configured to send all
>>> unrecognized bounce messages to the list administrator(s).
>
> This turned out to be a bounce format from Yahoo that wasn't recognized
> by Mailman. The recognizer will be updated for this.
>


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