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Speaking of mail etc



On Sat, 26 Jul 2003 19:32:46 -0400 (EDT)
MAILER-DAEMON at blu.org wrote:

> I use qmail. I like it. That being said, there's a lot wrong with it.
> It is not user friendly to set up. A lot of functionality is missing,
> but there are patches available to add them on. Sometimes this gets
> quite clumsy. For instance Debian does a great job with its qmail
> installation, but the patches it applies conflict with the TLS
> patches.
> 
> I use the Maildir format. This was a decision that I made, but it
> caused a lot of pain. Pine is my mail client, and the choice of many
> users on my system. Pine had to be patched to support maildir.
> 
> I use TMDA, as has been discussed on this list before.
There is obviously something wrong with your setup.
You had no to: line only a cc line.
The From: line was simply mailer-daemon.
You had an X-X-Sender: line:
X-X-Sender: bob at itanet.net

It's a bit difficult to analyze messages that have been passed through
mailman. Lately I've been bulk deleting held messages, but since this
message piqued my curiosity because it appeared valid. 

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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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