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

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- --On Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:56:36 -0500 Andrew Sullivan 
<ajs@crankycanuck.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@postgresql.org', and it should bounce back with 'no 
such user' ...

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