Developers of Sympa

[Aumont <address@concealed>]

Pierre Thierry wrote:
> 
> I'm new to Sympa, that I'll be using in a web hosting project based on
> free software (AlternC : http://alternc.net). I just have read the RFC
> 2298 on MDN, and this document says that
>         " a mailing list exploder SHOULD be
>           considered final disposition of the message "
> or alternatively change the notification recipient to a robot
> collecting the MDN and then generating a global MDN to the original
> recipient of the notification... (but this solution doesn't permit the
> recipients of the mailing list to know who is the real recipient of the
> notification)
> 
> I didn't see anything on the possibility of managing MDN by Sympa in
> the documentation. It is something that is on the TODO list ? (if no,
> I'll surely dive into Sympa's source code in a few weeks...)

Sympa remove Disposition-Notification-To header of any message received
because this as been used to catch some subscribers email in a list
where
review is closed.

According to RFC 2298, Sympa should return a MDN. You are welcomme
if you want to introduce this feature.I really doubt that it could
be usefull to collect MDNs comming from subscribers and to return a
global MDN to the message sender.

Meanwhile, in the futur Sympa could set it's own
Disposition-Notification-To header when distributing a
message and collect MDNs for a better bounce management.

Serge
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Serge Aumont        Comité Réseaux des Universités
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