At 02:57 PM 8/21/2018, Joan Young wrote: >I think it HELD (rather than discarded) the message because it came >from a subscriber to the list. Only non-subscriber mail would be >discarded outright. I agree EXCEPT, how did Mailman know the poster was a subscriber to the Rootsweb-Help mailing list unless it recognized rootsweb-help-L@rootsweb.com as an ALIAS for rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com Pat

On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 22:22:58 +0100, Pat Asher <pjroots@att.net> wrote: > At 02:57 PM 8/21/2018, Joan Young wrote: >> I think it HELD (rather than discarded) the message because it came >> from a subscriber to the list. Only non-subscriber mail would be >> discarded outright. > > I agree EXCEPT, how did Mailman know the poster was a subscriber to the > Rootsweb-Help mailing list unless it recognized > rootsweb-help-L@rootsweb.com as an ALIAS for rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com See my earlier reply, plus an additional comment that mail delivery aliasing is done by a separate piece of software /before/ the email gets to mailman which, apparently, has not been told of the aliasing. Malcolm. -- Malcolm Austen <malcolm.austen@weald.org.uk>

Pat, my posts were held up because of that ONE letter! No other reasons, and you showed me what did show up. I deleted that letter and the posts have been going to rootsweb-help since then without getting held up. And I found same thing from my lists I admin - the letter L get held even if it is from subscriber. David Samuelsen On 8/21/2018 3:22 PM, Pat Asher wrote: > At 02:57 PM 8/21/2018, Joan Young wrote: >> I think it HELD (rather than discarded) the message because it came >> from a subscriber to the list. Only non-subscriber mail would be >> discarded outright. > > I agree EXCEPT, how did Mailman know the poster was a subscriber to the > Rootsweb-Help mailing list unless it recognized > rootsweb-help-L@rootsweb.com as an ALIAS for rootsweb-help@rootsweb.com > > > Pat