[ris-int] Reply-To forwarded to /dev/null in myASn messages
Lorenzo Colitti colitti at dia.uniroma3.it
Wed Jul 14 16:46:41 CEST 2004
Rene Wilhelm wrote: >>... myASn can use reply-to address forwarded to /dev/null > > Are we sure we want that? How often does it happen? > Shouldn't there be follow by a risopsy when a notification > fails to be delivered? (for permanent failures, either > try to get in touch with representatives of the AS to > correct the address, or deconfigure the alarm???) What about setting the Return-Path: and Reply-To: headers to different values? When mail bounces it goes to the address specified in Return-Path, but when a human replies, the mail goes to the address specified in Reply-To (or From if Reply-To is not present). So it could be: Return-Path: <bitbucket at ripe.net> [...] From: myASn <myasn at ripe.net> Reply-To: risops at ripe.net or something like that. If you want automatic bounce unsubscription, you could set the Return-Path to something like Return-Path: <myasn-bounce-colitti=dia.uniroma3.it at ripe.net> where "colitti=dia.uniroma3.it" is the address that the notification was sent to. Then you can hook up a script to all myasn-bounce-*@ripe.net mailboxes that automatically unsubscribes after one or more bounces. Cheers, Lorenzo -- --------------------------------------------------------- Lorenzo Colitti Ph.D student Computer Networks research group Roma Tre University colitti at dia.uniroma3.it +39-0655173215 ---------------------------------------------------------
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