[Sysadmin] (Fwd) Undeliverable Mail

Dean Mah dmah at members.evolt.org
Wed Jan 15 11:05:51 CST 2003


On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 04:17:21PM -0000, William Anderson wrote:

> or Mailman, which seems the more logical place to do it, as long as that
> handler that's bunging in X-evolt and X-MajorGumbo headers can be made aware
> of an individual email address at that stage, or does it bung the same
> headers in each email sent out as a batch, e.g. is it
>
>   - Joe sends a mail to thelist
>   - mailman receives it, munges it, adds unique headers to each and every
>     mail as it's sent out to recipients (X-evolt in particular)
>   - Bob receives a mail from thelist with a different X-evolt header from
>     Joe, Susan, Pete and Cathy
>
> or is it
>
>   - Joe sends a mail to the list
>   - mailman receives it, munges it, adds some headers, and sends copies
>     of that one mail to recipients
>   - Bob receives a mail from thelist with the same X-evolt headers as
>     everyone else
>
> I hope you see what i'm getting at here - if it's the former, great, Mailman
> can handle bunging in the subscriber's address into the headers for us to
> use for tracing.  If it's the latter, Mailman doesn't have a scoob at that
> point, and it would then be up to the MTA to munge in some custom headers,
> that would then possibly affect meo mails too.

I get the latter by looking at my local copy versus the archive copy
in: archives/private/sysadmin.mbox/sysadmin.mbox

Dean




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