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[Peter Polkinghorne <address@concealed>]

Thanks to Rolf’s suggestion, I have solved the problem I was having. My Exim configuration failed to have:

 

trusted-users = sympa

 

Meaning sympa was not allowed to change the from (& hence return-path header).

 

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Peter Polkinghorne

Computer Officer (Systems)

Computer Centre

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From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of Rolf E. Sonneveld
Sent: 22 June 2010 15:29
To: Peter Polkinghorne
Cc: 'address@concealed'
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Problem with Return-Path header

 

Hi, Peter,

On 06/22/2010 02:22 PM, Peter Polkinghorne wrote:

We are using Sympa 6.0.3 on Exim4 on SLES. The issue I am having, is with bounce handling. As we are in the initial stages of deployment, I have set up a test list with a bad address for one subscriber.

 

The messages sent out on this list have items such as the List- headers set up correctly and Errors-To set listname-request, but the Return-Path header is set to sympa@site, instead of listname-request@site. I am unable to tell if this is Sympa’s fault of Exim’s, although the Exim set up is fairly simple, just forwarding onto the main Exim hubs for our site.

 

I have had a look at the code, and other than the VERP part, can not see much in the way of set up for Return-Path. Has anyone else had these problems or offer advice as to where to examine further?

the Return-Path is the representation of the SMTP envelope From address, and as such is added by the last mail server (Message Delivery Agent) that is responsible for dropping the mail into the mailbox of the recipient. Hence I would not expect Sympa to add the Return-Path header to the message. Now, I'm afraid this information does not help you much further, but you may want to investigate the setting of the SMTP envelope From address by Sympa.

/rolf

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Rolf E. Sonneveld
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