On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:03:59PM +0200, Filip Salomonsson wrote:
[snip]
> Oh, great. here's a line from my virtualdomains file:
> netdesign.se:salo
>
> in ~salo/.qmail-filip:
> ./Maildir/
> &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> in ~salo/.qmail-filip-owner:
> &[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> A message is recieved for [EMAIL PROTECTED], delivered locally to
> salo-filip, which puts the message in my maildir and forwards a copy to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] The envelope sender for the forwarded message is set to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], just as the docs say ("local" is salo-filip).
> But it makes no sense. If the delivery fails, the bounce message will be
> sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED], and the delivery instructions will be
> sought for in ~salo/.qmail-salo-filip-owner, which doesn't exist. Good job.
> The -owner files render themselves completely useless.
Never toyed with that, sorry.
> Also, any message sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] will have "Delivered-To:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the header, which is confusing.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] would be "correct". As would
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the "me" control file says
> kepler.netdesign.se).
Delivered-To is there primarily for loopdetection. It also happens to
be useful for multidrop pop3, and serialmail. Strip off the prefix and
you know the address.
Greetz, Peter.
