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Subject: Re: AOL and odd Reply-to
From: Nick Simicich <njs @ scifi . squawk . com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:58:28 -0400
To: list-managers <list-managers @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <B95CB194.B806%adamb@lull.org>
References: <20020716210657.18C861960A6@mycroft.greatcircle.com>

At 06:01 PM 2002-07-18 -0500, Adam Bailey wrote:
>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.
> >
> > The problem turned out to be that they had an odd reply-to munging:
> >
> > Reply-to:  listname@listdomain, posting-user@example.com
> >
> > When the message was actually posted by an AOL user, this read:
> >
> > Reply-to: listname@listdomain, example@aol.com
> >
> > 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.

Did the mail have a From: example@aol.com but a sender and a mail-from of 
listname@listdomain?


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