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Re: SRS and sendmail

2004-01-15 02:58:27
Justin Mason wrote:

Meng Weng Wong writes:

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 09:10:07AM +0000, Mark Tranchant wrote:
| | So I need to implement some form of SRS. I already run a couple of | sendmail milters, but I understand that a milter cannot change the | envelope sender. | | Any suggestions? procmail and formail? Or am I jumping the gun a bit here?

5) /etc/aliases contains

  addr: "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi newaddress(_at_)example(_dot_)com"

to send the msg with a new envelope-from; bounces will go back to the
postmaster at your domain.   In this setup, I think this is appropriate,
since generally the failure case is that the forward address has changed
and the aliases need to be updated.

An excellent intermediate solution. Many thanks for that: I have now implemented it. In case anyone is interested, my current setup is:

1) alice(_at_)aol(_dot_)com sends to bob(_at_)billericaybaptist(_dot_)net

2) bob(_at_)billericaybaptist(_dot_)net is in the sendmail virtusertable, and resolves to the local user "bbc-bob".

3) /etc/aliases maps bbc-bob to "|sendmail -f postmaster(_at_)billericaybaptist(_dot_)net -oi bob(_at_)hotmail(_dot_)com"

4) Bob gets his message from Alice, with the envelope sender set to my postmaster account.

Now, even if HotMail block on SPF failure, Alice's message gets through.

This is clearly not ideal for large remailers, as they would receive all the bounces. For my <200-user system with few bounces, I can deal with this until I get SRS fully implemented with reverse-mapping.

--
Mark.
mark(_at_)tranchant(_dot_)plus(_dot_)com
http://tranchant.plus.com/

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