On Tuesday 06 December 2005 07:57, Ira Abramov wrote:
> Quoting Shlomi Fish, from the post of Tue, 06 Dec:
> > Then, when everything has been Sympafied, install postfix, create scripts
> > to convert all the E-mail aliases to something it can understand,
> > configure postfix in correspondence to the qmail configuration, and then
> > use postfix instead of qmail and ditch qmail for good.
>
> Mazal tov, you got something to go your way :)
>
> > And now I've lately been losing mail because qmail on Eskimo does not
> > mangle the SPF headers correctly. And achieving that requires a patch:
>
> could you explain please? Qmail (and for that matter any MTA) should not
> be touching any headers. 

Maybe the problem is that it indeed doesn't rewrite the headers. Quoting from 
my correspondence with my hostmaster:

<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> On Wednesday, 30 בNovember 2005 10:16, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > Hi Oded!
> >
> > Seems like I'm losing some mail from mailing lists. The following
> > messages:
> >
> > http://perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2005-November/007527.html
> > http://perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2005-November/007528.html
> > http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.qa/5118
> 
> Its probably SPF - your iglu.org.il remailer isn't rewriting the 
> envelope address, and so mail to it is being rejected by the target 
> server when it is forwarded to or from SPF protected domains. You 
> should really get that remailer fixed.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

> I don't know what are the SPF's you are talking 
> about, 

http://www.openspf.org/

> but I'm glad you found yourself an excuse to kick out DJB from 
> the server. good for you :)

I suppose I'm not the only one who's losing mail, and this is becoming 
annoying.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

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