Jesper Dybdal a écrit : > I have just installed a mailing list manager (Mailman) for use with my > Postfix installation (which has just been upgraded to 2.5.5). I have > patched Mailman to use the XVERP option on MAIL FROM. > > This works, but I was surprised to see that when the recipient address > provided by Mailman is rewritten by Postfix' virtual_regexp, then the > recipient address that Postfix encodes in the envelope return path is > the rewritten address, rather than the original subscriber address that > Mailman knows. > > Since mailing list software using XVERP needs to recognize the address > from the envelope return path as being equal to the subscribed address,
Really? AFAIK, most list managers use the From: header. > would it not be better to always use the raw address from RCPT TO, > rather than the rewritten one, when creating the VERP'ed return path? > > I have not tested this with the 2.6 experimental release, but the > release notes say nothing about VERP, so I assume the behaviour is the > same in 2.6. > > (This is not a serious problem for me: the addresses that are rewritten > in my installation are in practice local addresses and it is extremely > unlikely that they will bounce. But it surprised me.)
