Alessandro Vesely writes:
What about plain courier deliveries, i.e. forwarding without maildrop?IMHO, there should be a generic framework for setting forwarding policies and establish criteria for determining the type of any forwarding rule. For example, newsletter exploders, anonymous mailboxes, changed email address, secondary mail servers, all result in different types of forwarding. The
How do you define them, specifically. You'll end up with maildrop.
reasons why different policies are needed, originate from concerns such as determining the responsibility for forwarding spam, avoiding to disclose sensible information, coordinating mail filters, et cetera. Besides properly setting the Return-Path, a policy might need to mandate a specific outgoing IP, a smart relay, some kind of authorization token, or other features. Would it be worth to plan such a general solution for Courier? I mean, we all
That's what maildrop is for. Once a decision is made to forward mail, there's no substantial difference between what maildrop does and what Courier does. Courier invokes submit, while maildrop invokes sendmail which invokes submit.
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