List changes? Receiving messages "to" me?
Tom Metro
blu-5a1Jt6qxUNc at public.gmane.org
Wed Aug 15 15:02:19 EDT 2007
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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