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

[Brad Knowles]

At 8:21 PM -0400 2004-06-23, J C Lawrence wrote:

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

	Only if the MTA in question is receiving a VERPed recipient 
address.  Mailman will never generate that kind of address (although 
users could subscribe with addresses of that form, but this is a 
separate matter), and will handle the generation of the VERPed 
envelope sender address itself.

	The only time the VERPed address comes into play is if there is a 
bounce generated to the envelope sender address that is created by 
Mailman, and even then it's just a matter of having the MTA pass 
everything it gets to mailman.

>  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.

	You might want to check again.  I haven't seen any such problems 
on the Mailman lists I've been managing for a couple of years.

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