[Xitami] Strange "notification" received; from a list member?

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <49441@dsl.co.uk>, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} writes:
>I've just received the following strange e-mail, claiming that a message
>of mine was deleted (by the recipient) without reading.  

You're not alone.  I've received several of them as well.

>Can the list owner confirm, or otherwise, that the purported sender of this 
>mail is a subscriber to the list?

He is not a subscriber under the address in question.  There is a
subscriber under an address which I suspect forwards to that address.

If these "deleted unread" messages continue to arrive then I'll probably
remove that "likely candidate" and advise them they've been removed
until they can confirm their mail system isn't the cause of the
messages.

>[for those of us that run our own smtpd] nor collected by POP3, then it
>will be bounced back to the originator [as required by RFC-[2]821] after
>30 days.  But surely this notification is insufficient to comply with
>that sort of bounce mandated by the RFC?)

Any such bounce message should probably be omitted for Precedence: bulk
and other similar "mailing list" messages anyway.  (I've not checked
the RFCs recently but I suspect they say something similar.)  At very
least they should be sent to the mailing list software, not anywhere
else.

Anyway I am aware of the issue, and the message someone else posted that
it was being investigated.  There will be a small grace period to fix
the issue, and if not I'll do what I can at the mailing list end to
minimise the problem.   (However the "deleted unread" messages appear to
relate to old messages already "received", and bypass the mailing list,
so there is a limit to what I can do.)

Ewen McNeill
Mailing List Administrator

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Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation  www.imatix.com