Mail bouncing from Skater Was: CAN ANY BODY HELP ?

From: Ryan Gill (rmgill@mindspring.com)
Date: Fri May 21 2004 - 09:06:11 PDT


At 11:54 AM -0400 5/21/04, Mil-Veh List wrote:
>Wouldn't we all get the return mail notification if that was the case??

Depends on the send mail config at the destination. If the
sendmail.conf is done right, it's sent to the sender of the mail, not
the list.

In every message sent by the list, there's the 'From:' and
'Return-path'. Each is specific. The sendmail config at
military-media.com is apparently smart enough to know not to bounce
back to the list (which would setup a mail loop, Mail Loop = Very
Bad).

Sendmail.conf is the massive configuration file on Unix systems (your
typical internet mail box) that handles how mail is sent around by
the system both internally and to other systems on the internet. NT
boxes have their own thing of course. Hacking sendmail (from the
standpoint of making changes to it) is an art in and of itself.

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