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Questions about the setup for mail-to-news on lugnet.com
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:01:23 GMT
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Geoffrey Hyde <GDOTHYDE@BIGPONDnomorespamDOTNETDOTAU>
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This is still an ongoing issue for LUGNET and people who have to
occasionally post to the lugnet.robotics hierarchy.
However, some interesting questions about the gateway arise.
For instance, I keep finding that my email address is specified as the
"Return-Path", like below, in these messages that keep coming back to me
instead of LUGNET:
Return-Path: <g.hyde@bigpond.net.au>
I believe this is incorrect, if LUGNET is causing it to be set to this -
what LUGNET wants to do is set Return-Path to itself, not to me.
The main reason LUGNET wants the Return-Path specified to itself, and not to
me is because it should be the one that wants the error messages, not me,
which as I have said is a misdirected bounce on LUGNET's behalf, because the
headers are not correctly setup.
Other fields such as From: and Reply-to: should be set to me or to the
LUGNET news server, perhaps they should all be set to the LUGNET news
server, and it instead identifies me with an "x-From:" parameter in the
message.
I also believe the format of the outgoing LUGNET news-by-mail messages
should be altered slightly, so that people wanting to reply to someone's
post directly have a line at the top that they can see which shows who the
message is from.
For instance, it could be as simple as the following paragraph - it's a bit
long-winded but you get the general idea:
This is a news-by-mail post sent to you by the LUGNET gateway which is
responsible for news-by-mail articles mailed out to you - if you wish to
reply directly to the recipient please remove the line containing the LUGNET
server in the From: field, and substitute the following email address
instead. (insert email address in a ready-to-copy format here)
Hopefully, if the receiving server sends an error message because a mailbox
is full, it will send it to LUGNET and not to me, that is, if the headers
are setup so the receiving server will find LUGNET as the address to return
email delivery failure messages to.
If not, I will continue to get misdirected bounce emails whenever I send
messages to lugnet.robotics and will still be disappointed at this problem
LUGNET has had for over 2 years now.
Cheers ...
Geoffrey Hyde
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