Re: [Savannah-hackers] mail.freesoftware.fsf.org lists

[Jaime E . Villate]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 06:01:56PM -0400, Joel N. Weber II wrote:
> I just commented out stuff in fencepost:/etc/exim/exim.conf that
> referenced mail.freesoftware.fsf.org kludges, restarted the mail
> daemon, and have been able to use the mailing list just fine.  So I
> guess I'm not really clear on what was going on, but it seems to work.

It works for you (I guess it is because of your @gnu.org email address, or
maybe because you're a "trusted" user). But for other mortals we've gone back
to the problem we had a few days ago: users will not be able to subscribe to
non-gnu lists.

> Received: from (fencepost.gnu.org) [199.232.76.164] 
>       by xanthine.gratuitous.org with esmtp; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 17:54:32 -0400
> Subject: Bcaml-bug -- confirmation of subscription -- request 389140
> From: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> Reply-To: address@hidden

Look what happens to other users:

Received: from tweety.fe.up.pt (tweety.fe.up.pt [193.136.28.27])
        by lorosae.fe.up.pt (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f71B4UN17272
        for <address@hidden>; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 12:04:30 +0100 (WET DST)
Subject: Bcaml-bug -- confirmation of subscription -- request 305237
From: address@hidden
To: address@hidden
Reply-To: address@hidden

Of course, since the Reply-to field is wrong, exim will now complain:

2001-08-01 07:23:20 verify failed for SMTP recipient
address@hidden from <address@hidden> H=quim-234.fe.up.pt
(localhost) [193.136.33.212]

And sends an error e-mail message:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. The following address(es) failed:

  address@hidden:
    SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT
+TO:<address@hidden>:
    host fencepost.gnu.org [199.232.76.164]:
    550 Unknown local part bcaml-bug-request in
    <address@hidden

Could you please fix this?

Regards,
Jaime