Re: virtualdomains vs. VERP and Delivered-To

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Charles M. Hannum writes:
>  > 
>  > Uhhh, did you *read* my first piece of email?  If I get a VERP address
>  > of `[EMAIL PROTECTED]',
>  > how pray tell is my mailing list software supposed to know that the
>  > mail was actually sent to `[EMAIL PROTECTED]'?
> 
> It's supposed to strip off the "foo-owner-mycroft-" prefix and the
> "@netbsd.org" suffix, and change the rightmost = into an @.  Were you
> expecting me to write the script for you?

Oops. The result would be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather
than "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Of course, some people's favourite
scripting languages might include an implementation of an oracle
able to figure out "spamalicious-" should be stripped off as well...

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."