[mailman-users] incorrect 'from'

Dave Sherohman esper at sherohman.org
Wed Feb 26 21:51:56 CET 2003


On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 09:36:54AM -0500, Kari Suomela wrote:
> I installed (seemingly successfully) v2.1, and set up all aliases as 
> displayed at the end of the setup screen. All messages are coming from 
> '<list>-bounces', not from <list>. What did I miss?

Nothing.  You don't want bounces to go back to the list, you want
them sent elsewhere.  (If they went back to the list, the bounce
message would be sent to everyone, including the bouncing address,
which would send a out a new bounce to the list...)  Thus,
listname-bounces.

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