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>Does this mean you can't SERVE OFF a "trusted" but broken MAILER ?
Yes, you can SERVE OFF a mailer, but this has a nonzero effect only if
the NJE origin or 'From:' field contains this address.
>Still this doesn't answer the question about the peer. It says
>"Processing mail from POSTMASTER@...." or does a peer look at some
>X-LSVxxxx tag for the SERVE check?
The origin is extracted from the X-LSVOPT tag, but only after the SERVE
check. But anyway the message probably came in with a 'From:' field
containing that address (this LSVOPT business is to defeat mailers or
gateways which convert hostnames or insert % routings, you want the same
'From:' origin in the archives of all the peers to avoid confusion). You
should be able to SERVE OFF that origin, though (says he after looking at
the code); just watch the nodeid and case. If the nodeid is the local
node, it means the mailfile from the peer contained invalid data or a bad
address in the 'From:' field, etc (this should not happen); if it is the
nodeid of the peer list, it means this peer detected the error and
substituted POSTMASTER locally, but maybe their mailer changed it to
domain form, or something like that. The best is probably to hold the
list and intercept one of the postings in question.
Eric
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