On Monday 06 June 2005 17:50, Stephen Warren wrote: > This sounds like the expected behaviour. > > Typically, TMDA is setup to handle a specific recipient's (i.e. yours) > email messages. > > If a message is sent to multiple recipients, even if those multiple > recipients are all "handled" by the same detination mail server, then > TMDA is run one per each recipient (assuming all those recipients have > TMDA setup) and TMDA is not aware that other recipients of the message > may also be generating challenges via TMDA. > > Hence, TMDA must generate challenge messages from your address, even if > you only received the email due to CC or BCC. Actually, to be precise, > TMDA doesn't care about the To/CC headers (or the non-existent BCC > header), since it performs its processing based on the SMTP envelope > sender, which may technically be something completely different again. > Yes, this would be excepted. But it looks like I was not clear. Suppose, my address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then suppose someone sends a mail that has: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then my tmda sends a confirmation request like From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confirm address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I use postfix, and before handing to tmda I'm checking the X-original-to: > > header, and set the RECIPIENT env var to it if it exists, because I had > > problems otherwise. (Trough I have to look at my docs for the concrete > > reason :) ) > > > > It is done like this: > > > > XTO=`echo -e "$MAIL" |formail -x X-Original-To` > > if [ "$XTO" != "" ]; then > > export RECIPIENT="$XTO" > > fi > > I'm not quite sure why you need to do this - are you forwarding email > between multiple servers, or using address rewriting or aliasing? > As far as I remember, Postfix used to mess up that variable, and put wrong things in there. But all my test mails has the correct address in it before handing them over to tmda. Thanks, Becz Tam�s _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([email protected]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
