A question: does anyone know if probing works with Qmail? > >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: >> >> 1. What exactly probe puts in the header of a mail item, > >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). > >> 2. Why sendmail does not support it, > >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). > >> 3. What exactly will do the patch found in the FTP site of LISTSERV for sendmail 8.10.1. > >The patch adds logic to the sendmail 'alias.c' routines to do the following: > >a) *if* the address starts with 'owner' and >b) we do *not* have an actual alias/mailbox/whatever for it > >then blindly feed it to lsv_amin and let Listserv figure it out. > >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. > >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 ;) >-- > Valdis Kletnieks > Operating Systems Analyst > Virginia Tech >