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Re: AOL and odd Reply-to |
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From: |
Adam Bailey <adamb @
lull .
org> |
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Date: |
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:01:49 -0500 |
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To: |
list-managers <list-managers @
greatcircle .
com> |
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In-reply-to: |
<20020716210657.18C861960A6@mycroft.greatcircle.com> |
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Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2.4011 |
On Tue, 16 Jul 2002 16:18:26 -0400, Nick Simicich <njs@scifi.squawk.com>
wrote:
> The symptom was that AOL users were not getting postings from other AOL
> users. Non-AOL users were getting all postings.
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> The problem turned out to be that they had an odd reply-to munging:
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> Reply-to: listname@listdomain, posting-user@example.com
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> When the message was actually posted by an AOL user, this read:
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> Reply-to: listname@listdomain, example@aol.com
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> And AOL would decide that the message was bogus and drop it on the
> floor. I can sort of see why. :-)
I cannot duplicate this problem in normal mail. The list software may be
adding some other element.
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Adam Bailey | Chicago, Illinois
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