Re: ezmlm on courier?

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:48:24 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.mail.ezmlm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 06:07:22PM -0400, Jeff Potter wrote:
> Thanks for this pointer, it lead the way to a better solution: fake  
> qmail-queue.

That doesn't really sound better, but it is certainly less invasive on
the part of ezmlm-idx.

> I spent a few hours today and have something in place  
> that emulates the qmail-queue binary and turns around and calls  
> Courier's sendmail bin, which includes a "-verp" flag suitable for  
> accepting a large number of recipients. Brief testing shows that it  
> seems to work for subscribing and posting, so we may be good to go.  

Cool.  I would be curious to see this too.

> Courier-MTA's verp encoding, by the way, encodes some characters that  
> qmail doesn't -- I noticed that '-' in a VERPed address on qmail is  
> unmodified, on Courier-MTA it gets converted to +2D. Neither here nor  
> there, but thought I'd mention it for posterity's sake.

Does Courier's sendmail program include a mode where it doesn't rewrite
the header?  qmail's sendmail invokes qmail-inject, which does rewriting
on email addresses in the header.
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