On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 09:03:52PM -0700, Tim Dees wrote:
I am a new Smartlist user, so please forgive any really obvious ignorance. The messages on my list are mostly getting delivered to the list members, but all of the messages delivered to my mailbox have the subject line "Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender" or something similar. The very bottom of this message will usually have the body of the message posted to the list by another user. Does anyone have any suggestions for making this delivery system resemble something a little more normal-looking?
Tim Dees tim@timdees.com
I guess you'd have to tell what would be "more normal-looking" to you. It sounds pretty normal to me.
Your list is sending mail to mailservers which for one reason or another are unable to complete the delivery. It might be temporary, like say the user is overquota, or permanent like the address is no longer valid. So the server for these members return the mail to you, the list owner and therefore the sender. Somewhere in the message it may tell you why it was unable to complete the delivery.
Or are you saying that you get a delivery failed message on messages that actually didn't fail? If I've missed your point, maybe you could make it clearer.
Don MacDougall dmacdoug@usc.edu