Thats exactly what I've done. I fired off an email to my friend detailing
the problem and some potential resolutions. (X-Recipient or Delivered-To
headers derived from the RCPT To: envelope field) It will be interesting to
see if they can accomplish this. I told him he would be better of running
his own mail server, but that isn't an option since they don't have the
technical people and won't hire them. Heck, they have 60+ people working
there...
-----Original Message-----
From: Russell Nelson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 8:47 AM
To: qmail list
Subject: RE: some qmail message not being delivered to a certain smtp
server. header questions
John W. Lemons III writes:
> I think I've figured out their problem... They are using FTGate to
retrieve
> the mail from their ISP who places all their mail in a multi-drop
mailbox.
> Then the "smartpop" stuff in FTGate pulls the info from the ISPs drop box
> and distributes it to the various local mail boxes, but can't distribute
> some of the messages because the ISP is not modifying the message headers
to
> append the "expected" X-Recipient header derived from the RECV TO:
> information from the envelope. Is it just me, or does this sound
> non-standard? Any RFCs on this?
Tell them that they cannot reliably do what they want unless their ISP
cooperates. These things *are* completely non-standard, but can be
made to work if the ISP stuffing the mail into the mailbox writes the
same information expected by the software downloading from the pop3
box.
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