Russell Hoover [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> From the 1.0pre2i manual:
>
> 6.3.19. bounce_delivered
>
> Type boolean
> Default: set
>
> When this variable is set, mutt will include Delivered-To headers
> when bouncing messages. Postfix users may wish to unset this
> variable.
>
> Why unset for Postfix users?
>
> My ISP uses Postfix (I use my ISP's mutt), and the headers on a bounced mail
> are the same whether I set bounce_delivered or not. In both cases, four
> "Resent: ___" headers are added, but there is no "Delivered-To:" header.
>
> (Just trying to understand how the new variable works.)
The problem is that if your MTA adds a "Delivered-To" line to block
looping, and you bounce a message to yourself, the "Delivered-To" line
makes it look like it was delivered already (since it was), and the MTA is
likely to catch this as a loop and trash it.
There may be other uses, but bouncing mail back to yourself is probably the
main one. This came up because of people doing things like bouncing mail
between multiple accounts they owned on different machines.
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