Developers of Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Olivier Berger a écrit :
> Hi.
>
> I'm testing Sympa configuration on Debian (Sympa 5.3.3(-5))... and
> tested the following situation : 
> 1) the list alias is not already set, so any mail sent to the list
> bounces with "Unroutable address" error. That's "fine" when a regular
> user tries to post to the list...
> 2) if I try and post from WWS, then the sender is sympa, so the bounce
> is sent back to sympa, which seems to drop that bounce message... 
>
> I would have expected listmaster to be notified in the second case, as
> this may be helpful to diagnose a configuration problem : posting to an
> existing list whose alias is broken (or something similar).
>
> Any idea why/if this is considered the desired behaviour (or a bug) ?
>   
Well, it's kinda historical.
When you post a message through the web, the sender is Sympa, because, 
due to the way we implemented the interaction between wwsympa and sympa, 
it has to send the message to sympa.pl itself first. Then after this, 
sympa handle this normally and send it to the list.
That's bad.
What we want to do, in a reasonably short notice, is to remove this 
useless sending, in order to, if you send a message through the web, you 
will stay the sender all the time. Should any report be sent in 
response, you would receive it.
To answer your question : it's a bug for the reasons exposed above, but 
we will fix it. Either by changing the behaviour of Sympa, or by 
notifying the listmaster. This last option, however, would be a short 
term solution.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> P.S.: the fact that the alias is not there is not the problem here...
> that's just some situation which may occur ;)
>   
You'll never be as twisted as a true information system. ;-)

Regards,

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités