wolfgang zeikat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 September 2000 at 10:36:38 +0200
> Also sprach David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04.09.2000:
>
> >If a spammer sent that message with an envelope recipient of
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED], it would be accepted because newmediaone.net is in
> >rcpthosts.
>
> does that mean: the message is accepted *and* the mails to the Cc: header
> recipients (which are not in rcpthosts) are *also* delivered? that was the
> original question.
No; as I said, the headers in the message have *no* impact on the
process. They're just data.
> >If the spammer sent a second envelope recipient of [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> >and aol.com is NOT in your rcpthosts, he'd get an error on that
> >recipient (unless RELAYCLIENT had been set through tcpserver when this
> >connection was accepted).
>
> does a Cc: header create a second envenlope recipient? (so far i thought
> it doesnt)
That's a question about how the sending MTA works; and is thus
irrelevant.
By some process, which we don't care about, the sending MTA decides
what envelope recipients there will be for a message. It then
connects to our system and starts presenting those recipients. It
presents them one at a time. We can accept some and reject others.
We accept only those whose FQDN part is in rcpthosts (unless the
RELAYCLIENT variable is set enablling relaying for this connection, in
which case we accept *anything*). After presenting the recipients,
the message data is transmitted, and we queue the result, and
eventually qmail-send puts lspawn and/or rspawn to work on it.
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