Broken Mail Transport Agent at stelco.com.mv

[Mark H Weaver]

To the administrator of stelco.com.mv's mail system:

Your mail transport agent (MTA), aka mail server, is broken.
Can you please tell us what software you use?

Specifically, your MTA apparently sends delivery status notifications
(DSNs) to the address listed in the "From:" header.  This is very wrong.
It is very bad for mailing lists in particular, because it causes your
DSNs to be sent to the original poster instead of to the mailing list
system itself.

MTAs should ideally send DSNs to the envelope sender, i.e. the address
specified in the "MAIL" SMTP command.  If this is too difficult to
implement, you should at least use the address specified in the
"Errors-To:" header, or if that isn't present, the "Sender:" header.

In any case, please respond to let us know that you received this.

   Thanks,
     Mark


address@hidden writes:
> This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.
>
> Delivery to the following recipients failed.
>
>        address@hidden
>
>
>
> Reporting-MTA: dns;bdc.stelco.local
> Received-From-MTA: dns;stelco.com.mv
> Arrival-Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 10:06:32 +0500
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822;address@hidden
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.2.1
> X-Display-Name: Shiyas Rasheed
>
> From: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>
> Subject: after-gc-hook recently broken for bdwgc 7.2alpha CVS
> To: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:05:25 -0400
>
> Sometime between 2.0.0 and current stable-2.0, after-gc-hook has been
> broken on my system: "FAIL: gc.test: gc: after-gc-hook gets called".
>
> Both 2.0.0 and current stable-2.0 are built and linked with bdwgc
> 7.2alpha from CVS, circa 2011-03-27.  This on gNewSense metad/mipsel
> (slightly modified Debian Lenny).
>
> Any ideas?
>
>    Best,
>     Mark
>
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