On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:26:08 +0100 Simone Piunno <pioppo@ferrara.linux.it> wrote:

On Friday 31 October 2003 22:30, Brad Knowles wrote:

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Right now we're receiving messages over a pipe and as far as I see we're not using any environment or command line parameter (beside the script name) so where's this SMTP magic?

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You mean the envelope sender address? The IP address of the envelope sender?

yes, I mean exactly this, we're not retrieving them, neither by command line options nor by environment variables.

Ahh, yes. I'd forgotten that as I wrap Mailman's wrapper in a larger filter which does take and processes the envelope information.

However, there remains a distinct difference if several addresses are conflated to the same POP/IMAP box. In that case you lose the target side of the envelope, and thus can't determine reliably which Mailman-specific address/wrapper/alias to deliver the message to.

Doing it would probably be MTA-specific (i.e. less portable).

As of last I checked the Debian Exim packages ship with the no-alias-file-required Mailman configs by default.

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