[Dovecot] [Fwd: Bounce action notification]

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jul 2 18:36:22 EEST 2007


On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 18:10 +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 10:51:17AM -0400, John Peacock wrote:
> > That isn't a terribly helpful error message, since it doesn't include the 
> > original e-mail message, with headers, so that you could see what Mailman 
> > thought the original Mail-From: address was (which is what is failing 
> > here)...
> 
> Actually, it does include the bounce with headers.  The bounce seems to have
> originated from 81.3.115.182, which reverse-resolves to
> canville-182.adsl.newnet.co.uk.

Right, thanks. I didn't notice that. Banned the IP, hopefully it's not
dynamic. :)

> First guess is, something is seriously broken in that host.  Another guess is
> that Mailman just scanned the bounce for subscriber addresses and found
> tss at iki.fi, given that the bounce wasn't formatted in any standard way.

I wish Mailman supported some kind of hashes in bounce addresses.

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