[clue-admin] Spam Routing Question: Why didn't it just bounce?

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:10:25 -0700
Jed S. Baer wrote:

> OK, I get an admin message from from Mailman about receiving a bounce
> message. But what it sent me wasn't a bounce message. It was spam sent
> to lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us, which doesn't exist at all on
> the machine -- not as an alias, not as an account, not in the mailman
> aliases.

I think I've figured this out, sort of. A non-member post to CLUE-Dev was
processed by mailman, sent to the list, and bounced from the non-existent
lynn.danielson message. But instead of sending me the bounce message,
Mailman sent me the original mail from the non-member.

Except that that message has not come through to me as a subscriber to
that list. I've checked my filtered-out spam, and it isn't there. So why
would it get delivered to Lynn, and not to me?

Guess I'll post something to CLUE-Dev and see what happens.

jed
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