On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:04:14PM -0500, James Morgenstein wrote:
>This appears to be used by most of the public mail servers that I have
>tested against, but when a mail bounces out of one of my local qmail
The problem with DSN is that *EVERY* machine that the message passes through
must suppor
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:56:55AM -0500, James Morgenstein wrote:
[snip how to get qmail to use DSN]
Don't use DSN. VERP provide a much more reliable way of detecting
bounces. qmail supports VERP natively, and any remote hosts need not
even support it.
If you *really* want DSN, any available pa
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From: Sean Reifschneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 1:08 AM
To: James Morgenstein
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Subject: Re: Qmail and RFC1894 - Delivery Status Notifications
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 10:04:14PM -0500, James Morgenstein wrote:
>This appears to b
* James Morgenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001213 09:23]:
> I am somewhat hesitant to rely upon VERP's because I have seen several
> problems in how some email programs handle the = sign in the VERP. We all
> know that the = sign is a valid character for the local part of an email
> address accordi
> Has anyone else found problems with VERP's?
VERPs may cause the 'user name' part of the return-path email
address to become longer than 64 characters, and I have found
that some MTAs will not accept messages with such a return path.
It says in section 4.5.3. of RFC821
:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:21:16AM -0500, James Morgenstein wrote:
> I am somewhat hesitant to rely upon VERP's because I have seen several
> problems in how some email programs handle the = sign in the VERP. We all
Fair enough. Then use something other than the = sign. And if you're
worried abo
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:21:16AM -0500, James Morgenstein wrote:
> I have experienced several problems with mailto: and reply links
> when using ezmlm. Some clients that I know have problems are Yahoo,
> Excite, etc.
As far as I am aware Excite Inbox handles mailto's and ezmlm VERPS
just fine
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:24:46PM +, Mark Delany wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:21:16AM -0500, James Morgenstein wrote:
> > I am somewhat hesitant to rely upon VERP's because I have seen several
> > problems in how some email programs handle the = sign in the VERP. We all
>
> Fair enou
> Fair enough. Then use something other than the = sign. And if you're
> worried about using a string that ends up being longer than 64
> characters, then use a simple database and send the key that
> identifies the original recipient. Something like:
>
> bounce-dbkey12345678@listhost
>
>
