On Mon, 10 Sep 2001, Peter van Dijk wrote:
> > - qmail-remote can only send ASCII, possibly extended by 0x80...0xff,
> > and requires a CRLF terminated mail with constraints on the line
> > format (length in particular).
>
> remote does the CRLF termination itself. Line length does not seem to
> be limited, unless I'm reading the source wrong.
qmail-remote refuses to send mail that is not terminated with CRLF and
has qmail-send bounce it. While qmail-remote may not impose the line
length restriction, the remote MTA may do. In either case, qmail-remote
will report to qmail-send that it failed.
> > - qmail-local cannot deliver mail that contains (regexp) "^From " to
> > mbox format spools.
>
> Untrue.
Sorry, I may have recalled wrongly, didn't check. From would have to be
escaped to >From if it delivers it. Thanks for pointing that out.
> > Here's my suggestion:
> >
> > * Strip the mail _body_ from the undeliverable bounce when copying it
> > into the doublebounce.
>
> > 2/ The double bounce defaults to postmaster who has no business with
> > getting the users' mail bodies.
>
> Partly agreed. He may like to see headers.
It seems I wasn't clear enough, so here's the picture of what I'd like
stripped.
HEADER of doublebounce
empty line
BODY of doublebounce:
QSBMF "I tried to deliver a bounce message to this address, but the
bounce bounced![...] below this line is the original bounce"
HEADER of bounce
empty line
BODY of bounce:
QSBMF "This is a permanent error; I've given up[...] below
this line is a copy of the message."
HEADER of message
empty line
BODY of message <------- STRIP JUST THIS --------------------
I suggest to strip just the BODY of the very original message, not its
headers.
> > - Mail need no longer be discarded because the doublebounce will be
> > deliverable locally to mbox and across SMTP links.
>
> Uhuh.
What's wrong with collecting all postmaster mail on a single machine?
