[vorbis] badly-configured SMTP daemon?

Graham Mitchell graham at grahammitchell.com
Thu Jun 26 20:04:23 PDT 2003



One of your users, "nizar_lethif" is subscribed to the [vorbis] and 
[vorbis-dev] mailing lists at xiph.org.  His mailbox is full.

Any time anyone posts a message to either of these lists, nizar_lethif is sent 
a copy (as expected), which bounces because his mailbox is full (also as 
expected).  The problem is that the bounce message is sent to the *person who 
posted to the list* rather than to the mailing list software.

This has been happening since at least June 18, and it's taken us this long to 
figure out what was going on.

The coolgoose.com server is supposed to be sending bounce messages to the SMTP 
envelope sender address, which is set to "owner-vorbis at xiph.org" on all the 
messages handled by the mailing list.  Instead, it's sending them to the 
person in the "From" line (i.e. the original poster).

Because of this mis-configuration, there was no way for the mailing list 
software to detect this was happening and drop the user from the mailing 
list.

Could you please take care of this?  All of us on the various [vorbis] mailing 
lists would be quite appreciative.


-- 
Graham Mitchell - computer science teacher, Leander High School
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
	- Sir Richard Steele

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