> From: Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 14:39:15 -0700
>
> At 05:18 PM Friday 7/30/99, Scott Schwartz wrote:
> >I think it's strange that qmail-inject uses '-' to seperate the mailbox
> >from the verp part, even when some other conf-break character is in
> >effect for that user. This surely violates the principle of least
> >surprise, and it requires some users (but not others) to manually
> >include their break character in their return address, and to adjust
> >their dot-qmail scripts to match.
>
>
> I agree with you about "least surprise" but I would be concerned that an
> installation is vulnerable to not detecting outstanding VERP mail because an
> admin changed the conf-break character.
>
> Likewise, if the bounce-to system (for want of a better term) is not the
> same as the sending system, is it reasonable to insist that they have the
> same conf-break characters before they can interoperate?
One way to think about it is as defining a "network standard conf-break
character" which systems are expected to convert to and from in order to
interoperate. This is much like FTP URLs using '/' characters no matter what
the underlying OS uses, or requiring bytes to be transmitted little-endian
over the network (or is it big-endian?...whatever...it's the motorola
ordering, not the intel ordering), or requiring that end-of-line be
transmitted as CRLF for text files.
Chris
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