Re: Strange Email Bounce
On Tuesday 21 June 2016 07:29:42 Charlie S wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:03:10 -0500 Don Armstrong sent:
> > 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.
>
> Which people? We who are getting these bounces or some other people?
>
> I'll see if I get another like it. If so, then unsubscribe, then
> subscribe with something other than Gmail.
>
> Charlie
It's nothing to do with Gmail in this particular case. I am not getting them.
It is the sender that has the misconfiguration in this case.
Lisi
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