[Mailman-Developers] FWIW: Postfix does VERP
Dan Mick
Dan Mick <dmick@utopia.West.Sun.COM>
Thu, 6 Dec 2001 15:55:30 -0800 (PST)
> At least as of the snapshot I'm running, 20010714, postfix does VERP just
> as you'd expect, merely by adding -V to the "sendmail" invocation.
> (It works with multiple addresses, too.) Hmmm; maybe it's time to
> play around with Sendmail.py again.
>
> There seems to be no way to invoke such behavior through an
> SMTP connection (not surprisingly).
I lied: EHLO reports that XVERP is an optional command, and indeed
MAIL FROM: <from-addr> XVERP is legal and generates a VERPed address.
Hmm. Maybe this SMTP extension is already "defined". Sure looks
like one could hack SMTPDirect.py to use it.
Hmm, hmm, hmm.