Cab someone please explain for what purpose I can use cactchall.
-- Best Regs, Masood Ahmad Shah System Administrator ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * | Fibre Net (Pvt) Ltd. Lahore, Pakistan | Tel: +92-42-6677024 | Mobile: +92-300-4277367 | http://www.fibre.net.pk | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) "All I want is a few minutes alone with the source code for the universe and a quick recompile." ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Raftery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [qmailadmin] Postmaster catchall doesn't forward > On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 10:12:39AM -0700, Tom Collins wrote: > > It's been a long standing problem and we're going to take care of it > > all around. We'll be patching qmailadmin to use email addresses for > > the catchall, forwards and aliases instead of using direct Maildir > > delivery (which bypasses any special rules set up for that address, > > like forwarding postmaster). > > Please don't release code which makes exclusive use of email addresses > for catchalls. > > If a message is reinjected the original envelope will be lost. Such a > change to the code would make a qmailadmin generated catchall useless > for serialmail, vodmr and anything else that uses the original envelope. > > In a catchall situation the original envelope is vital! If you reinject > all messages to the catchall target you discard the only record of who > the actual message recipient was. Please don't do this. > > > ATB, > james > >
