> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-postfix-us...@postfix.org [mailto:owner-postfix- > us...@postfix.org] On Behalf Of Wietse Venema > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 5:04 PM > To: Postfix users > Subject: Re: postcat ENVELOPE RECORDS output? > > Curtis: > > Oops... that was embarrassing... my message was missing a subject. > (fixed) > > > > I apologize if this is answered in the documention. but I'm having > trouble > > finding where the "ENVELOPE RECORDS" section of the postcat output is > > described. > > It's not documented, because there is no promise that it will work > the same way in a future Postfix version. > > However, the names of the records give a hint. > > > Most particularly, I'm concerned about the following three fields: > > > > named_attribute: dsn_orig_rcpt=rfc822;em...@example.com > > original_recipient: em...@example.com > > recipient: em...@example.com > > > > Would it be safe to say that all local recipients of the message will > be > > found in the "recipient:" field? (Repeated for each recipient?) > > That's how Postfix works at the moment, but there is no promise > that it will always work that way. > > Only behavior in the documentation has the promise that it will > work that way in future Postfix versions. This promise comes at > the cost of considerable effort when Postfix internals are changed. > > Wietse
Wietse, your commitment to keeping future Postfix versions consistent with past documentation is amazing. And yes, we will definitely be extremely careful about upgrading to new versions of Postfix. Thanks for your quick response. Curtis
