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Re: Mailing List Plans
At 10:21 08.12.98 , Matthias Urlichs wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Jeffrey A Law:
>>
>> > - Would it be terribly difficult to have a constant envelope sender
>> > address? The increasing numbers make it difficult for mail redirection
>> > systems to file the mailing list appropriately, unless they support
>> > regexps (not all do).
>> Precisely what field are you referring to? Seems to me you'd want to do any
>> auto filing based on the Sender: line.
>>
>No, I'm talking about the envelope sender address which doesn't show up in
>any header line.
>
>It currently looks like "egcs-return-135-smurf=noris.de@egcs.cygnus.com".
This is a must to handle bounces correctly and automatically. I would think
it's unsafe (and wrong?) to redirect on the envelope sender address anyway.
What you would do with a double bounce with "<>" as return path? Where
should this be redirected to?
Franz.