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Started by Glenn Chappell
Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:08
Easy (?) mailing list questions
Author: Glenn Chappell
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:08
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:08
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I'm (re)writing some software to handle a mailing list, and I have a couple of simple questions: (1) When a message is sent to the list address, it is echoed (after a bit of processing) to everyone on the list. I would like to keep the original "To:" and "Cc:" lines (currently I don't) on the echoed message. I know I can do this by putting the "To:" and "Cc:" lines from the incoming message into the outgoing message, then handing it over to sendmail and giving the *real* recipient to sendmail on the command line. My question: Is this a legitimate thing to do? A message may get sent to the list address, mom & dad and the family dog. The echoed message will *look* like it's going to mom & dad and the family dog, but it is really going to a person on the list. Is there any chance that some site out there will take the "To:" line literally and send the message to the family dog? (2) I don't want to echo bounced mail to the people on the list. So, I need to be able to distinguish bounced mail from regular mail. Is there an official way to do this? My current method (which has correctly recognized all bounced mail for the past year) is to grep the "From:" line of all incoming messages for one of the following 14 strings: MAILER-DAEMON@ MAILER-DAEMON> Mailer-Daemon@ Mailer-Daemon> MAILER@ MAILER> uucp@ uucp> postmaster@ postmaster> computer_services@ computer_services> mmdf@ mmdf> Thanx, Glenn Chappell <><
Re: Easy (?) mailing list questions
Author: Craig_Everhart
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:14
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 21:14
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Here's my view on the mailing list problem. It's self-consistent, but there are other (inferior!) views. (1) No problem; the envelope-to address (what you hand to sendmail on the command line, but more specifically the address that in SMTP goes over as the argument to RCPT TO:) doesn't have to have much of anything to do with the header-to address. (2) Change the envelope-from address to be what the notices of delivery errors should be sent to. (The envelope-from address is what is given in SMTP on the MAIL FROM: line.) Again, this address doesn't have to have anything to do with what's in the From: line of the message header. This lets error bounces not be redistributed to the list. Sendmail has support for both of these features, but I'm not a sendmail expert, so I can't really tell you how it's done best. Craig
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