List changes? Receiving messages "to" me?

[John Abreau]

I signed up for the reports at

    http://postmaster.aol.com/tools/fbl.html

Then whenever someone reports a message to AOL as spam that
AOL thinks originated from the BLU mail server's ip address,
AOL forwards a copy of the reported message, after stripping
the reporting user's identity from the headers.


Tom Metro wrote:
> John Abreau wrote:
>> But then AOL started stripping the offender's identity, so we
>> were unable to determine who to unsubscribe.
>
> How are you receiving these notifications from AOL? As normal bounces
> sent to the envelope sender address?
>
>
>> The changes to Mailman that now send a separate copy to each
>> subscriber were done to make it possible to unsubscribe the
>> offenders.
>
> Other Mailman lists I'm on utilize Variable Envelope Return Paths
> (VERP)[1] (as someone else mentioned), so I assume it is something
> Mailman supports.
>
> VERP is a technique where each message is sent using a unique envelope
> sender address that can be used to identify who the original recipient
> was when a bounce occurs. There is no need to modify the RFC822 headers.
>
> Contact me off-list if you'd like help figuring this out.
>
>  -Tom
>
> 1. http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt
>

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