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  1. Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert
  3. From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
  4. Subject: Re: Generating Errors-To: lines
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug31.225102.17372@mp.cs.niu.edu>
  6. Organization: Northern Illinois University
  7. References: <1992Aug31.211914.1850@advtech.uswest.com>
  8. Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:51:02 GMT
  9. Lines: 20
  10.  
  11. In article <1992Aug31.211914.1850@advtech.uswest.com> huntting@advtech.uswest.com (Brad Huntting) writes:
  12. >I'm setting up a mailling list for a user, and can't seem to get
  13. >sendmail to insert an "Errors-To:" line when it expands the list.
  14. >
  15. >The alias is "ansa-streams", here is what my aliases file has:
  16. >
  17. >    ansa-streams:        ansa-streams-list@futureworld
  18. >    ansa-streams-list:    :include:/u/huntting/ml/xyz.list
  19. >    ansa-streams-request:    list-maintainer-dude
  20. >    owner-ansa-streams:    ansa-streams-request
  21. >    owner-ansa-streams-list: ansa-streams-request
  22.  
  23. >The only probem is that if an error occurs one or more hops down the
  24. >line the bounces will be sent to the original sender, not the list
  25. >maintainer.
  26.  
  27. The usual trick is to change your first alias to:
  28.  
  29. ansa-streams: |"/usr/lib/sendmail -fansa-streams-request -oi -odq ansa-streams-list"
  30.  
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