[Mailman-Developers] [Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>] Re: Bounce removal parameters default values

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:46:09 +0200 
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:
> At 10:22 AM -0400 2004-06-19, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> Does 2.1.5 formally require plus addressing support in the MTA?

> That's only required if you let the MTA generate the VERP.

Not quite.  It minimally requires plus addressing to be enabled in the
MTA (assuming it supports it).

>> I thought that was still optional if you didn't use any of the
>> VERPish supports.

> If the client generates the VERP, the MTA should pass that through
> unchanged.  At that point, a string-up-to-@ should be a
> string-up-to- at .

Right, modulo the plus address extension removal.

> I've used this on installations I've done, and I have not done
> anything special with the MTAs to configure them for VERP
> support. What they provided out-of-the-box has worked just fine.

I'm not familiar with the various common MTAs current OTB configuration.
When last I checked (year+ ago) most didn't enable plus addressing
support by default.

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