you give the impression that you don't know what ``variable envelope reply
paths'' are. the fact that a bounce gets back to qmail means the software
can determine the orginal destination. i think that's the essence of
bounce processing. this technique is sufficient powerful that it forms the
basis for what l-soft calls bounce-free processing in the current release
of listserv. it's sufficiently useful that i'm surprised that everyone with
a non-trivial source of bounces doesn't insist that their mta support
it.
of course if the bounce is sent to originator or the the list then the mlm
won't get a chance to process it.
>>>>> "MN" == Mike Nolan <nolan@celery.tssi.com> writes:
MN> This is sort of a negative proof, in the absence of evidence that
MN> qmail cannot figure out SOME arcane or misguided e-mail bounce.
MN> (That is what we're talking about, right? I hope I don't have that
MN> confused, too! This whole thread is dealing more with semantics
MN> than with specifics.)
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