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Re: VERP uses the recipient name after virtual_regexp rewriting

From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Tue Dec 30 2008 - 06:28:01 CST


Jesper Dybdal:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:10:16 +0100, I wrote:
>
> >Since my first mail, I have tried an experiment where the rewriting of
> >the sender address is done by a .forward file instead of by
> >virtual_regexp; in that case, VERP actually uses the recipient address
> >before it has been changed by .forward, as I would like it to do.
>
> That should of course be "rewriting of the *recipient* address", not
> "sender address".

FYI, Postfix implements VERP embedding in the queue manager, not
in the individual delivery agents (one exception had to be added
later, to handle the case where local(8) replaces the envelope
sender upon delivery to an alias that has an owner-alias).

        Wietse