alright, I undertstand. Thanks for doing that research Jesse. 

Has anyone set up a postfix query to pull just forwarding aliases from thhe 
dbmail alias table? it would be inconvenient to make a new table. 

Probably wouldn't be that hard I suppose, I'll have a go at it. 

-Micah


On Thu June 12 2003 10:05 am, Jesse Norell wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   From rfc 2821, we have excerpts:
>
> "SMTP servers performing a relay function MUST NOT inspect the
> message data, and especially not to the extent needed to determine
> if Return-path headers are present."
>
> and
>
> "     a gateway from elsewhere->SMTP SHOULD delete any return-path
>       header present in the message, and either copy that information to
>       the SMTP envelope or combine it with information present in the
>       envelope of the other transport system to construct the reverse
>       path argument to the MAIL command in the SMTP envelope."
>
>   So, if dbmail is considered part of the SMTP implimentation, it
> is broken, and shouldn't remove the Return-Path: that was there - but
> I don't think it is part of SMTP, it's more a "gateway from elsewhere"
> which becomes an SMTP sender, in which case it SHOULD make this work
> right, but strictly speaking, doesn't have to.
>
>   In short, use postfix aliases right now, and this should be put on
> a todo list to fix in dbmail (ie. when it strips the Return-Path:
> out of a message it is forwarding somewhere, use that address as the
> envelop sender in MAIL FROM command).
>
> Later...
>
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: Jesse Norell <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Dbmail] forwarded bounces
> Sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:42:23 -0600 (MDT)
>
> > Heh...
> >
> >   It just occured to me, that I am using a dbmail forward myself as
> > of last weekend.  Looking that this message (the one I'm replying to),
> > there is a single "Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" header.  That will
> > be where bounces are sent, and from some testing it looks like that
> > is inserted by the smtp receiver, using the MAIL FROM address.  (There
> > was no Return-Path: in the message headers of what dbmail sent me
> > on a forward, so the one I see has to be added by the local smtp
> > receiver).  Lemme see what I can find in rfc 2822.
> >
> >
> > ---- Original Message ----
> > From: Jesse Norell <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Dbmail] forwarded bounces
> > Sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 09:23:59 -0600 (MDT)
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >   You might need to use postfix aliases for this right now, which
> > > work the way you want.  I'll try testing a dbmail off-site forward
> > > and see if I get the same results.  Can you look in the relayed
> > > message for Return-Path: headers?  See if there are multiple ones
> > > there, or just one with [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or none at all, I guess).
> > > I'd have to look at the rfc for proper behavior, but it seems dbmail
> > > should leave the Return-Path: that postfix puts in there alone, so
> > > the far end replies to that address.  If dbmail changes it itsself
> > > (which I kind of doubt), it's probably broken.  If the far end smtp
> > > server is putting a Return-Path: from the smtp MAIL FROM command,
> > > then... I don't know if it ought to be configured not to do that when
> > > a Return-Path: is already present, of if dbmail should use the
> > > Return-Path: address in it's MAIL FROM command - but one or the other
> > > should probably fix it.
> > >
> > > More ramblings from the desk of,
> > > Jesse
> > >
> > > ---- Original Message ----
> > > From: Micah Stevens <[email protected]>
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: Re: [Dbmail] forwarded bounces
> > > Sent: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 07:59:51 -0700
> > >
> > > > Yes, that entry is:
> > > > dbmail    unix  -       n       n       -       -       pipe
> > > >   flags=R  user=dbmail:dbmail argv=/usr/local/sbin/dbmail-smtp -d
> > > > ${recipient}
> > > >
> > > > On Thu June 12 2003 7:21 am, Jesse Norell wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > >   Do you have flags=R in your master.cf entry for dbmail?
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > ---- Original Message ----
> > > > > From: Micah Stevens <[email protected]>
> > > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > > Subject: [Dbmail] forwarded bounces
> > > > > Sent: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 22:30:01 -0700
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > As I have many forwarded aliases to other domain in the table,
> > > > > > I've been noticing that if a mail is forwarded through dbmail and
> > > > > > gets rejected from the recipient's server, the mail gets bounced
> > > > > > to postmaster at the dbmail domain. Ideally, the error notice
> > > > > > should then get sent back to the original sender, but it's just
> > > > > > getting dropped into my postmaster account.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Is this behavior standard for mail forwarding or is it peculiar
> > > > > > to dbmail? It seems wrong as the sender will never know that the
> > > > > > mail was not recieved, but I wasn't sure if there was a technical
> > > > > > hurdle for this happen or not. If I was using Postfix for
> > > > > > forwarding, would it behave differently?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > My other thought was that there was something configured wrong,
> > > > > > but I couldn't think of what to change. I'm running dbmail CVS as
> > > > > > of a couple of months ago, with MySQL / Postfix.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for any insight on this,
> > > > > > -Micah
> > > > > >
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