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Postfix Archives: Re: adding automatic signature when use of po

Re: adding automatic signature when use of postfix as relay

Subject: Re: adding automatic signature when use of postfix as relay
From: Ralf Hildebrandt (R.Hildebrandttu-bs.de)
Date: Tue Jan 25 2000 - 11:12:25 CST

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 11:16:57AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:

> I need to understand question first. How does Postfix decide when
> to append text? Does it look at the sender address? The recipient?

Mail from local machines to non-local machines (mail to "ousiders", mail to
recipients that are not members of the company). A distiction could surely be
made by the recipient address.

But what happens with mails that get sent to both local and non-local
recipients? What happens with bounces?

> What is the recipient supposed to see? Nowadays, a lot of mail is
> MIME encapsulated, and simply appending the text at the end of a
> message is meaningless. What about mail with attachments? PGP signed
> mail?

It breaks. What did you expect :) ?
 
> Until I understand the problem I can't even think of a solution.
;) 

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