Re: [Sheflug] VM/XEMacs and rewritten headers.

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] ecosse.net>]

Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
 > >>>>> "Barrie" == Barrie Bremner <TheEnglishman [at] ecosse.net> writes:
 > 
 >     >> I suspect Netscape doesn't use qmail.  Here are your headers
 >     >> from the last thing you sent me directly.  Stuff prefixed with
 >     >> # is my comments.
 > 
 >     Barrie> Here's me sending a response (using Netscape) to the open
 >     Barrie> relay message you sent:
 > 
 > OK, that's one for you.  I suspect that Netscape is using the qmail
 > equivalent of sendmail's -f flag; that makes sense for your typical
 > PC-based Windose setup.
 
I'm not entirely sure exactly what Netscape does, but I've finally set
the system up so that the mailserver and not the MUA does the work.
It's possible to have per user environment variables that Qmail reads to
achieve similar behaviour to the Sendmail -f flag.

The thing that gets me is that is possible to have a poorly/mis-
configured mailserver and it will still deliver mail. Most of the
time.

I'm a fan of systems that stay utterly broken until you actually sort
it to spec - gives me an incentive to actually learn the system a
little better :-)

 > But this is way outside what I can deal with right now; I have _never_
 > used Netscape/Mozilla mail, and I never have actuall run a qmail
 > installation although it comes highly recommended by people I really
 > respect (eg, Russ Nelson who makes a living installing corporate mail
 > servers uses only qmail; he won't do work he can't warrantee, and
 > qmail is the only mailer he trusts well enough to warrantee).
 
 Can't get much more of a recommendation than that.

I'm pretty impressed by the fact that Qmail 1.03 is now something like
2 years old, and still perfectly servicable.

Baz.
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