Re: [Mailman-Developers] Maybe you guys can help me
On Tue, 04 May 2004 11:40:49 -0400 Carson Gaspar <carson@taltos.org> wrote:
--On Tuesday, May 04, 2004 10:25 AM -0400 J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:
Reliably distinguishing is non-trivial.
Incorrect. Parsing RFC-standard DSNs is trivial. I wrote the code to do it back in the old days when I ran the firewalls mailing list.
That's true only while you maintain the "RFC-standard DSNs" qualifier. Very few of the DSNs my lists receive are RFC-conformant.
-- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. claw@kanga.nu He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
[ I am on the list, guys - no need to CC me... ]
--On Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:40:27 -0400 J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu> wrote:
That's true only while you maintain the "RFC-standard DSNs" qualifier. Very few of the DSNs my lists receive are RFC-conformant.
So if they aren't compliant, we treat them as the gobbledygook they are. No reason not to handle correct DSNs from sendmail, postfix, et al. This is a textbook case of "solving the universe's problems is too hard, so I won't take out the trash". And yes, I _did_ write the code to handle _exactly_ this case in the mailman 1.x days (along with a bunch of other bounce handlers). It's a shame it got lost.
-- Carson
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