Keld Simonsen:
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> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 08:52:04PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > Keld Simonsen:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I am running majordomo with postfix for a number of email list, and I
> > > have some trouble tracking down bounces. I thought that if I could have
> > > some
> > > customized Received: headers with the envelope receiver logged
> > > eg by "for <user>" then I would be able to track some mutating adressees.
> > > Seems like some postfixes do that, but mine does not.
> > > I could not find something on it in the documentation or via google.
> >
> > Postfix logs "Received..for <recipient>" only if there is exactly
> > one recipient. Otherwise there would be a privacy violation of
> > BCC recipients, including the addresses of mailing list members.
> >
> > > is there a way to customize the "received:" header?
> >
> > That would be a mistake with multi-recipient mail.
> >
> > > Are there other best practices for tracking down bounces for majordomo
> > > with postfix? Maybe having separate message ids per individual recepient?
> >
> > It's trivial with MTAs that implement standardized RFC 3462 style
> > delivery status notifications. That's Postfix, Sendmail, and many
> > other systems.
> >
> > With non-standard MTAs such as exim and qmail, it takes a bit of
> > creative scripting.
> >
> > Another approach is to use VERP which sends one message per
> > recipient and encodes the recipent in the bounce address.
> >
> > See http://www.postfix.org/VERP_README.html
>
> I am trying the VERP way, and have a little difficulty to understand what to
> do.
>
> I understand that there are two phases in the setup:
>
> 1. have sendmail generate an extended reply address,
> with the recipient added to the reply address, after a delimiter,
> which by default is "+" . the recepient address is added with the
Where does VERP_README say that SENDMAIL must generate a
specially-formatted sender address?
Wietse
