On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 20:46, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Friday 2005-03-25 at 14:03 -0500, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 13:46, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@mnsi.net> [03-25-05 13:40]:
It's not the list bouncing them Carlos, it's the address listed by the OP.
If you do not notify the list-owner the bounce is happening, he/she will not know to unsub the guilty party. If the guilty party is unsub-ed, that address will not be bouncing msgs.
A little thought *is* necessary.
Got you, finally. Dumping the address from the list will kill the bounces. I was thinking of a more at the source (address) of the problem solution.
It is like this: - We send to the list server. - The list server sends one email to each lister. - One of the listers is missconfigured or whatever, and bounces back to the OP.
We can not notify the bouncer in any way, because anything we send him will bounce.
We could perhaps notify his mail administrator, if the bounce message gives enough information - but we don't know if he is bonafide.
True, but I took the chance and fired one off to what I hope is the postmaster of the site and not address that shows on the bounced postings.
That mail administrator should perhaps know that they shouldn't so easily bounce back list mails (there are a "Mailing-List" and a "Precedence: bulk" headers).
So the only alternative is to inform this mail list administrator, a human. It is unfortunate that nobody reads them at SuSE on holidays.
Mike