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  • From: Hadmut Danisch <address@concealed>
  • To: address@concealed
  • Subject: Handling of BAD listnames
  • Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 14:53:52 +0200

Hi,

just a simple question/suggestion:

If sympa receives a message for a list that doesn't exist,
the message is simply renamed to BAD-... and silently deleted
after some time.

Since I have configured my MTA to pass _every_ mail sent
to a certain domain ( ...@lists.danisch.de ) to sympa, it might
happen, that messages can't be assigned to a mailing list, e.g.
if the address was misspelled.

1. Is there any way to cause sympa to reply with an error message
like "No such mailing list..." ?

2. Is there any security problem when the sender can send emails
with any address to sympa (i.e. can addresses be misinterpreted)?


regards
Hadmut Danisch


  • Handling of BAD listnames, Hadmut Danisch, 10/09/2000

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