[Mailman-Developers] Re: being flexible.

[Brad Knowles]

At 10:04 PM +0100 2003/10/31, Simone Piunno wrote:

>  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?

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

>  Fetchmail would pass exactly the same bytestream over the same pipe, or do I
>  miss something?

	Yup.  Fetchmail loses exactly the same information, in exactly 
the same way.  As soon as the message is written to a mailbox 
somewhere, you lose the envelope information.  So, retrieving the 
mailbox via POP3 doesn't work.

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Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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