Re: AOL and odd Reply-to

[Adam Bailey <adamb @ lull . org>]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002 19:58:28 -0400, Nick Simicich <njs@scifi.squawk.com>
wrote:
> 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?

Not with a list name, but yes. With and without a multiple reply-to.

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