Re: SRS for postfix ?

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>>>>> "Stuart" == Stuart D Gathman
>>>>> "Re: Re: SRS for postfix ?"
>>>>>  Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:38:21 -0400 (EDT)

    Stuart> On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, John A. Martin wrote:
    >> Is this any help
    >> <http://www.irbs.net/internet/postfix/0401/1020.html>?

    Stuart> No.  It is a rant against SRS based on misconceptions.
    Stuart> Examples: "uncontrolled growth of local part", "no
    Stuart> standard SRS encoding", etc.

Apart from that paragraph, the preceding references to the Postfix
architecture may be a bit better.  I do not however grok the
implementation logic given for the delivery agent.

    Stuart> The code included implies that patching Postfix is the
    Stuart> only way to implement SRS.  I was hoping that, while the
    Stuart> sendmail milter API doesn't handle it, the postfix policy
    Stuart> daemon API would handle modifying MFROM.

Would a new transport be worth thinking about?

    Stuart> While interested in Postfix, I have never used it.
    Stuart> Sendmail is so flexible, the ugliness of the CF language
    Stuart> is not enough to drive me away.

Postfix has a very different architecture.  That is why there is not
now an easy way for a milter to change the MFROM in Postfix.

        jam