samba - Dec 1997 - SAMBA DIGEST PROBLEM: Re: Message not deliverable (Forward Msg)

Den 22-Dec-97 18:08:39 skrev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton f?lgende om
"SAMBA DIGEST PROBLEM: Re: Message not deliverable (Forward
Msg)":
> On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
>> Isn't it about time to fix the envelop sender address of message
from the
>> mailing list so bounces don't end up on the mailing list? It's
been broken
>> for all the time I've been subscribed, which is more than a year
now.
>> From samba@samba.anu.edu.au Sat Dec 06 03:00:09 1997
> rask, it _is_ fixed.  the problem is not the mailing list, it's the
broken
> software at the recipient's end which ignores the Errors-to: and all
those
How can you expect mail software to magically guess the intention of
non-standard headers that you make up yourself? You'd be just as well off
with something like

   Please-Send-Errors-To-This-Address: ....

or

   Magically-guess-that-errors-should-be-sent-to: ...

Bouncing a message per RFC 821 and RFC 1123 means sending the bounce to the
envelope sender address, which the Samba mailing list sets to the mailing list
address, samba@samba.anu.edu.au. So if the mail software as the recipient's
end complies with the RFCs, bounces will go to the mailing list. No headers
will be read.

Regards,

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On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> Den 22-Dec-97 18:08:39 skrev Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton følgende om
"SAMBA DIGEST PROBLEM: Re: Message not deliverable (Forward Msg)":
> > On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> 
> >> Isn't it about time to fix the envelop sender address of
message from the
> >> mailing list so bounces don't end up on the mailing list?
It's been broken
> >> for all the time I've been subscribed, which is more than a
year now.
> 
> >> From samba@samba.anu.edu.au Sat Dec 06 03:00:09 1997
> 
> > rask, it _is_ fixed.  the problem is not the mailing list, it's
the broken
> > software at the recipient's end which ignores the Errors-to: and
all those
> 
> How can you expect mail software to magically guess the intention of
> non-standard headers that you make up yourself? You'd be just as well
off
> with something like
i haven't read the respective rfcs, but i understand that there is a
convention (Errors-to: or something) which broken (old, badly written)
email server software is unaware of.

samba, as a standard list server, complies with these conventions.

luke