> The mail bounced because it was attempted to be delivered to > debian_user@green.hartshorne.net. However, the server handling the > domain green.hartshorne.net can't find a user named "debian_user". > > This is only half of the story, though. The mail server for > green.hartshorne.net is horridly broken. There are two locations in > an email for the sender and two for the recipient(s). One location, > which you are familiar with, is the message headers. The other is the > envelope. Just like snail-mail, the message has contents (headers and > body) and an envelope. Snail-mail works like this : > 1) The postoffice reads the envelope to determine where to deliver it. > 2) If delivery can't succeed, the postoffice reads the envelope to > see where to return the package with notification of the > problem. > Email is works the same way. However, some systems decide that the > envelope isn't good enough. They rip open and read mail that isn't > theirs, and then decide to deliver the bounce to the sender mentioned > in the headers, not the one on the envelope. > > The rest of the story is this : somehow, at some time, the address > debian_user@green.hartshorne.net was subscribed to the list. Later > that user no longer exists at that domain. Now you send a message to > the list, and the list dutifully passes it on to all subscribees. One > thing the list manager does is change the envelope sender so that > bounces will automatically be handled by it. Instead, that broken > mail server sent the bounce to you since your address is in the "From:" > header. Ah, ok.. so I guess that means it's not a fault on my side. *wipes away sweat from forehead* I hate that. Why don't the list maintainers wipe the faulty address? -- Michelle Alexia "Jade" Storm Dragon Impersonating a Human and failing.
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