[Q:] Has Mail Delivery Changed?

Tue Feb 9 07:11:00 GMT 1999

A list management program must put in a Sender field to 
really be RFC-822 compliant. And, mail delivery systems 
must use that field for handling bounces. Unfortunately, 
CCmail and Exchange gateways are very often do not use
the Sender field. <sigh> but that is another whole battle.
Can someone at cygnus who has control over the new
list management software please configure it to put in 
a Sender: field. If nothing else, a formail filter can put
one in for you quite nicely, but I am guessing that this 
new software package you are using should be able to 
do it. If you want - I can quote page and section of 822
that requires it. God knows I've done that to enough 
postmasters for CCmail systems ;-)
As for Outlook scanning the entire header - not Outlook 97
that I am using on NT. It's filtering capabilities suck. 
I really need to find me a Unix home on the net someplace
that I can connect via IMAP to.......
Thanks,
Dan
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	David M. Smith [SMTP:david.smith@home-free.demon.co.uk]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 09, 1999 7:02 AM
> To:	gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Subject:	Re: [Q:] Has Mail Delivery Changed?
>> In article < 36C01829.DD20B1F2@upf.es >, Walter Garcia-Fontes
> <wgarcia@upf.es> writes
> >The change is of course due to the fact that they have changed the
> >listserver. I check now for "sourceware.cygnus.com" in the To: and
> CC:
> >fields and filter the mail as well as before (using procmail). You
> still
> >have to keep your old rules since some people keep sending to
> >gnu-win32@cygnus.com (also check this in To: and CC:).
> >
> >Including a Sender: field may be useful, though, so if people at
> Cygnus
> >could program the listserver to include a Sender: or Owner: field,
> >filtering the mail would be easier.
>> Someone kindly forwarded me the announcement that this was going to
> happen. I looked through my list database and I had not received it
> directly! I have not attached it as I am sure most of you will have
> seen it.
>> The new list server does seem to put "Sender:" in the header of some
> messages, but I am definitely getting stuff without it. As I said
> these
> messages seem to have custom aliases in the "CC:" field. I have
> modified my rules to suit the new list software and will keep
> monitoring
> the stray ones for a suitable pattern.
>> Thanks for the help.
>> Regards,
> David
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> David M. Smith
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