At 05:54 PM Friday 7/30/99, Chris Garrigues wrote:
> > From: Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:39:15 -0700
> >
> > At 05:18 PM Friday 7/30/99, Scott Schwartz wrote:
> > >I think it's strange that qmail-inject uses '-' to seperate the mailbox
> > >from the verp part, even when some other conf-break character is in
> > I agree with you about "least surprise" but I would be concerned that an
> > installation is vulnerable to not detecting outstanding VERP mail
> because an
> > admin changed the conf-break character.
> >
> > Likewise, if the bounce-to system (for want of a better term) is not the
> > same as the sending system, is it reasonable to insist that they have the
> > same conf-break characters before they can interoperate?
>
>One way to think about it is as defining a "network standard conf-break
>character" which systems are expected to convert to and from in order to
Yep. A standard conf-break may not be a bad idea, but it doesn't avoid the
confusion that Scott raised that people will confuse or assume that the qmail
conf-break is the same as the VERP conf-break.
Mark.
