I think if Mikhail can indeed come in with some solid documentation,
it may be the best thing that's happened to dbmail in a long time.  :)


---- Original Message ----
From: Aaron Stone <dbmail-dev@dbmail.org>
To: "DBMAIL Developers Mailinglist" <dbmail-dev@dbmail.org>
Subject: Re: [Dbmail-dev] cvs commit
Sent: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:35:29 -0000

> ""Jesse Norell"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> 
> > 
> >> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:10:38 +0100, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> >> wrote:
> >> > Jesse Norell wrote:
> >> > >>         * lmtp.c (lmtp): fix silly auto_reply bug.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >   You might run "grep -ir deliver-to" through the source
> >> > > (1.2, 2.0 and 2.1) and fix all those typo's.  I just checked
> >> > > dbmail_2_0_branch, and those are still in there.
> > 
> >   A possible use of a "deliver-to" header came up on irc the other
> > day - someone wanted to use a program to call dbmail-smtp to deliver
> > a message to a user by adding that header in,
> > eg. "Deliver-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]".  I don't think the particular
> > program could specify the address on the command line, but could put
> > it into a header.  I wonder if Eelco (or Roel?) could recall if that
> > was the original intention of those headers.  If so, at least for
> > auto_reply, it probably should look for both to determine who the
> > message was sent to.
> 
> 
> Yes! Right! I remember! Ok, run dbmail-smtp -h. Take a look at the help:
> 
> lucite root # dbmail-smtp -h
> *** dbmail-smtp ***
> Use this program to deliver mail from your MTA or on the command line.
> See the man page for more info. Summary:
> 
>      -t [headerfield]   for normal deliveries (default is "delivered-to")
>      -d [addresses]     for delivery without using scanner
> 
> 
> Ok, now it says "delivered-to" which doesn't ring a bell at all. So this
> must have been changed along with the patch. But yes, you're exactly
> right, there was a good intention behind "Deliver-To:"
> 
> Aaron
> 
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