Re: Strange Email Bounce
On Mon, 20 Jun 2016, Michael Milliman wrote:
> I just replied to an email here on the debian-user list. I have checked the
> debian-user list archive on debian.org, and the email was indeed received
> and posted to the list. Nevertheless, I also received a bounce notice which
> was somewhat disturbing. It reported the email bounced from
> backup@ninjalabs.com. This bounce notice was in HTML format and was mostly
> an advert. I am not an expert, or even very knowledgeable, about reading
> email headers, however it appears that the bounce was in response to the
> forward of my original message after having been received by the
> lists.debian.org server.
This happens when people have their mail system misconfigured to send
bounces to the header From: instead of the envelope FROM. If you receive
them in the future, please forward them to listmaster@lists.debian.org
with a brief explanation of which list you sent the mail to and when,
and we'll unsubscribe (or try to unsubscribe) the offending address.
[Debian mailing lists have bounce handlers which automatically deal with
bounces which correctly go to the envelope FROM, but unfortunately there
are an infinite number of ways to misconfigure e-mail servers.]
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