# @(#)contrib/striphdrs/README 1.1 10/26/91 23:17:34 Path: veritas!amdcad!sun!newstop!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!mips!atha!aupair.cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon From: lyndon@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Lyndon Nerenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Smail3, mailing lists, and remote bounce messages Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 91 03:56:13 GMT References: <1991Oct2.143758.11575@tssi.com> Sender: news@cs.athabascau.ca Lines: 123 nolan@tssi.com (Michael Nolan) writes: >The problem is this: if there is a bad address on the list the >bounce message is passed on to the entire list, not just to the owner. >LOCAL delivery problems go to the owner, but not remote ones. Here's how I handle the problem on the smail3-users mailing list. owner-smail3-users-redist: postmaster owner-smail3-users: postmaster owner-smail3-users-request: postmaster smail3-users-request: postmaster smail3-users: "|/etc/local/smail/stripheaders|/usr/local/bin/smail -odq -oi -fsmail3-users-request smail3-users-redist daryl" smail3-users-redist: :include:/etc/local/smail/LISTS/smail3-users Messages sent to smail3-users gets it's envelope return address changed to before being sent out to the list. Most mailers use the envelope from address to send bounce notifications to. Local errors in processing list messages go to postmaster via the owner-* entries. I can't recall a bounce message ever getting past this system in two years of use. It's also the system used by Brian Kantor at UCSD for several *very* large mailing lists (i.e. I stole the idea from him :-) -- atha!cs.athabascau.ca!lyndon || lyndon@cs.athabascau.ca Packet: ve6bbm@ve6mc.ab.can.noam As a math atheist, I should be excused from this. --Calvin