SMTP conversation:
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> MAIL FROM:<verptest-@host1-@[]>
> 250 ok
< RCPT TO:<user@host2>
> 250 ok
< DATA
> 354 go ahead
< Subject: VERP test
<  
< .
> 250 ok 916770426 qp 1077
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Delivered message:
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Return-Path: <verptest-user=host2@host1>
Delivered-To: user@host2
Received: (qmail 16270 invoked from network); 19 Jan 1999 18:27:09 -0000
Received: from host1 (xx.xx.xx.xx)
  by host2 with SMTP; 19 Jan 1999 18:27:09 -0000
Subject: VERP test
----------

Conclusion: qmail does not need to send multiple copies of VERPed message
if the destination SMTP server runs qmail (or any other VERP-enabled MTA
if such MTA existed).

Of course, it needs to figure out whether a particular MTA supports VERP.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"NSA GCHQ KGB CIA nuclear conspiration war weapon spy agent... Hi Echelon!"

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