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My Postfix's sendmail manpage has -f:

-f sender
Set the envelope sender address. This is the address where
delivery problems are sent to, unless the message contains
an Errors-To: message header.


But doesn't have a -V. It's Postfix 20010228, distributed with Mandrake 8.1.

I figure that you propose to force the sender address to be the original
sender, and not let Postfix guess that the mail is coming from the postmaster?

Sounds like a plan...

Aaron

Eelco van Beek <eelco@ic-s.nl> said:

> Hi,
>
> I've looked at the sendmail replacement that postfix provides and I think we
> just need to provide an -V or a -f option. What do you guys think?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Eelco
>
> On 20-02-2002 20:41, "Ryan Butler" <rbutler@adiis.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:29, Ryan Butler wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> This is a fundamental flaw with dbmail trying to be a mailer and a mail
> >> server at the same time. Forwards should be handled by the mail server,
> >> ala postfix. Read the header at the top of src/cleanup/cleanup.c in the
> >> postfix distribution for a detailed explanation of why this is the case.
> >
> > Ugh, I should look closer, the file is src/cleanup/cleanup_message.c
> >
> >> This probably should really be fixed before 1.0 as it is a pretty
> >> serious problem. I might investigate #2 a bit further to see if its
> >> really doable, but if someone else wants to give it a try and report the
> >> results that would be great too.
> >>
> >
> > One other option that I thought about after sending this message,
> > perhaps dbmail could just dump a postfix compatible queue file in the
> > postfix queue directory that postfix would then pick up and forward on,
> > this would probably be the best 1.0 solution as it would not involve
> > writing a mail server or breaking postfix in a way that makes it
> > non-compliant.
> >
> >
> > Ryan Butler
> > ADI Internet Solutions
> > rbutler@adiis.net
> >
> >
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Man sendmail :

-V Variable Envelope Return Path. Given an envelope sender address of
the form
owner-listname@origin, each recipient user@domain receives
mail with a per-
sonalized envelope sender address.

By default, the personalized envelope sender address
is owner-list-
name+user=domain@origin. The default + and = characters are
configurable with
the default_verp_delimiters configuration parameter.

-Vxy As -V, but uses x and y as the VERP delimiter characters,
instead of the
characters specified with the default_verp_delimiters
configuration parame-
ter.


My postfix version is : 20011226

> I figure that you propose to force the sender address to be the original
> sender, and not let Postfix guess that the mail is coming from the postmaster?

Yes that's exactly what I was thinking. We just parse the Return-Path
header, if that doesn't exist we'll take the information from the From
header and force that address as sender.

Should work.. I'll look into it.

Best regards,

Eelco

>
> Sounds like a plan...
>
> Aaron
>
> Eelco van Beek <eelco@ic-s.nl> said:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've looked at the sendmail replacement that postfix provides and I think we
>> just need to provide an -V or a -f option. What do you guys think?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Eelco
>>
>> On 20-02-2002 20:41, "Ryan Butler" <rbutler@adiis.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:29, Ryan Butler wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is a fundamental flaw with dbmail trying to be a mailer and a mail
>>>> server at the same time. Forwards should be handled by the mail server,
>>>> ala postfix. Read the header at the top of src/cleanup/cleanup.c in the
>>>> postfix distribution for a detailed explanation of why this is the case.
>>>
>>> Ugh, I should look closer, the file is src/cleanup/cleanup_message.c
>>>
>>>> This probably should really be fixed before 1.0 as it is a pretty
>>>> serious problem. I might investigate #2 a bit further to see if its
>>>> really doable, but if someone else wants to give it a try and report the
>>>> results that would be great too.
>>>>
>>>
>>> One other option that I thought about after sending this message,
>>> perhaps dbmail could just dump a postfix compatible queue file in the
>>> postfix queue directory that postfix would then pick up and forward on,
>>> this would probably be the best 1.0 solution as it would not involve
>>> writing a mail server or breaking postfix in a way that makes it
>>> non-compliant.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ryan Butler
>>> ADI Internet Solutions
>>> rbutler@adiis.net
>>>
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Dbmail mailing list
>>> Dbmail@dbmail.org
>>> https://mailman.fastxs.nl/mailman/listinfo/dbmail
>>>
>>
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>
>

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