Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!lll-winken!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: A Plea to Mailing / News Forwarding List Maintainers Message-ID: <7703@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 19 Aug 89 06:35:21 GMT References: <7549@cbmvax.UUCP> <19062@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Distribution: na Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 26 In article <19062@mimsy.UUCP> steve@umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) writes: > > If you're trying to hack headers to make sure that mail/news bounces go > back where they belong, I'd suggest using the RFC 822 Sender: line rather > than Errors-To:. The former is standard, while the latter is not. The > former works pretty well, too; on a large (> 500 users) mailing list I run, > on which I put a Sender: line in the header, submitters usually don't see > any bounces. > > Hacking the From: line may or may not be worth it. I don't, but that's > just me. I don't have any real problem with your comments, however there is some question about which header lines survive gateways into VMS mailer(s). I know the From: line makes it 8-). The Sender: stuff makes sense, however looking briefly at RFC822 didn't really reveal much about the semantics - whether it would serve to redirect error messages or whether it served mostly as a comment entry. I dug around a bit in sendmail and mostly ended up with a headache. Happily, the problems seem to have gone away for the moment! -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)