Re: detecting the original envelope recipient under a virtualdomain?

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On 23 Aug 2001, John R. Levine wrote:

> Finally, if you look at the source code for qmail, you will see that
> even if you wanted to pass along the unprefixed version of the
> address, it would take a great deal of hackery to do so.

Surpise...if you look at the source code, you will see qmail-send already
does a "great deal of hackery" to de-virtualize rcpt addresses when it
generates bounces (stripvdomprepend()). And of course, 1. it fails to do
this when it generates VERPs, ergo it generates wrong VERPs sometimes,
2. the de-virtualization is unreliable anyway because it fails when a
corresponding entry of virtualdomains is removed or changed while a
message with a munged rcpt waits in the queue.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."