Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 6 Jun 1999 19:25:52 +0100 (GMT) | From | Matthew Kirkwood <> | Subject | Re: Now who does cause this ??? |
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On Sun, 6 Jun 1999, Riley Williams wrote:
> > Somebody (likely in Sweden) is resending all their incoming > > email to some gateway address, but the writers of that gateway > > are truly morons, and they send the error reports to WRONG > > address.
> The problem is that the software doing the bouncing CORRECTLY replies > to the FROM address on the email it's bouncing, as that's the only > originating address it has available.
Wrong. It is (AFAIK) never correct for an MTA to use a From: address for any purpose. That's why majordomo inserts a "Return-path: owner-linux-kernel-outgoing@vger" to every mail, and any MTA ignoring that is broken.
> My solution is to bounce the error message to the list owner of the > mailing list I posted to that caused the bounce, and most list owners > promptly delete the offender's subscription...
Matti /is/ the list owner and the point of his message was to point out that some brain-dead person behind a brain-dead MTA has broken their linux-kernel subscription.
Matthew.
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