Re: strange message for moderation: weird list aliases??

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- --On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:56:36 -0500 Andrew Sullivan
<ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:43:09PM -0300, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>> The problem I'm reporting is closely related: you will note that the
>> username part contains an extra -postgresql.org so it's not exactly the
>> list's "from" address. In my opinion what should have happened was that
>
> Aha.
>
>> this message, instead of attempting delivery to the list, should have
>> been dropped on the floor with a reject message of "no such user here"
>> or some such.
>
> Right. That's the other problem we were talking about in the same context.
> I think it was Magnus who thought he had a solution for that.

I thought we had already implemented the solution for that? We have a fixed
list of valid email addresses on all the MX servers that mail gets rejected on
... try sending to 'garbage(at)postgresql(dot)org', and it should bounce back with 'no
such user' ...

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