Re: VERP oddness--qmail bug?

Chris Johnson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.misc.pape.general
Message-ID <20031202221405.13781.qmail@45fbe1a912761e.e01ba3ee4a6096.palomine.net>
Sorry--I mistakenly sent this directly to Gerrit. Here it is for the list.

On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:23:43PM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> Well, I've thought about this, but didn't code accurately; look for
> ``virtualdomains'' in src/qconfirm-notice.c.  Could you please try the
> attached patch?

The patch seems to have done the trick.

> > At first glance, this would appear to be a qmail bug. I'd think that
> > ezmlm's bounce handling wouldn't work if a subscriber to a list is on
> > a virtual domain on the same server that hosts the lists.
> >
> > This just in! I found this in the qmail archives:
> > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/513/2001/8/1200/6367356/
> > Apparently I'm not the first to have discovered this.
>
> I think djb was well aware of this, but I agree, it's unexpected
> behavior.

I'd never have expected it. You ask it to give you a VERP based on one address,
and it adds some unexpected bits on.

Thanks very much for the patch. I've tested it with a couple of accounts, and
things work as they should.

Chris
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