Developers of Sympa

[David Verdin <address@concealed>]

Hi,

Olivier Berger a écrit :
> Le jeudi 06 décembre 2007 à 10:22 +0100, David Verdin a écrit :
>   
> > Hi,
> >
> > Olivier Berger a écrit :
> >     
>
>   
> >  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... 
> > >
> > >       
> > 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 for you clarifications on the sending mechanisms, which obviously
> may be improved.
>
> So just to clarify a bit further, any "unroutable message"-like bounce
> sent back to sympa@ will be silently dropped ?
>   
Not exactly silently. I guess there will be logs telling that an unknown 
command was addressed to sympa.
> It seems to me this is not good indeed... however, maybe that's a very
> rare case, as most bounces would be sent back to sympa-request@ and not
> sympa@ ?
>   
Yes. That's what is done for most bounces.
Any mail actually sent by sympa will contain "sympa-request@" as the 
address for bounces.

Regards,
> My 2 cents,
>   

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David Verdin
Comité réseau des universités