On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:34:47PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:41:34AM -0400, Paul Blazejowski wrote: > > doesn't mailman unsubscribe an email automatically after a couple of > > bounces? unless freebsd list is not configured to do so... > > That's only if the bounce message reaches mailman. In this case, > the culprit is a mail bouncing agent (MBA? ;) which addresses > the bounce to the original sender (the one from the From header) > instead of *any* of the other possible addresses present in > mailman-generated messages that would do the right thing.
RFCs say bounces have to go to the envelope sender. MailMan correctly changes the envelope sender of mail to freebsd-security to owner-freebsd-secur...@freebsd.org so that it can see the NDRs (non-delivery reports). However some broken software boucnes to the From address in the header. Since the From address in the header is *not* MailMan it cannot auto-unsubscribe the bouncing user. If the bouncing users MTA/MUA doesn't follow specifications there isn't a lot MailMan can do Anyway, back to your scheduled discussion of FreeBSD security issues Gary _______________________________________________ freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
