A question:  does anyone know if probing works with Qmail?

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>On Fri, 02 Jun 2000 09:59:31 EDT, Jean Bedard <[log in to unmask]>  said:
>> Searching through the manuals, and through the archives of LSTSRV-L and LSTOWN-L, I found many references about sendmail not being compatible with probe, but could never find exactly why. Could someone point me to a discussion about it, or tell me:
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>> 1. What exactly probe puts in the header of a mail item,
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>It creates a special SMTP MAIL FROM:<[log in to unmask]>
>type of address.  If mail then bounces, it can parse out the listname, username,
>and domain name to determine what address on the list is broken (due to aliases
>and forwarding and just plain non-RFC1982 formatte bounces, the actual bounce
>may not contain the failing address in it anywhere).
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>> 2. Why sendmail does not support it,
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>It can't determine that 'owner-listname-this-that-the-other-thing' is a valid
>local mailbox (which isn't surprising, as there's no alias for it, the address
>having been built on the fly).
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>> 3. What exactly will do the patch found in the FTP site of LISTSERV for sendmail 8.10.1.
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>The patch adds logic to the sendmail 'alias.c' routines to do the following:
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>a) *if* the address starts with 'owner' and
>b) we do *not* have an actual alias/mailbox/whatever for it
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>then blindly feed it to lsv_amin and let Listserv figure it out.
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>This patch is *NOT* recommended for general-use machines, as it will feed
>owner-* mail to lsv_amin whether the program exists or not.  This is why
>this feature isn't in the base Sendmail.
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>It isn't in Sendmail 8.10.1, and won't be in 8.11 - I'll see if I can code
>up a more general solution for 8.12 (which would mean I could get out of the
>business of maintaining that patch - I already have enough OTHER sendmail
>issues to deal with ;)
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>                                Valdis Kletnieks
>                                Operating Systems Analyst
>                                Virginia Tech
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