Re: Mail programs

Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> wrote:

On 27.05.2024 um 17:14 Uhr lkh wrote:
 

Which means: netbsd's sendmail *doesn't* mangle bang style addresses,
and neither does mutt, the MUA I used to send the mail.

 
Is sendmail configured to use uucp?
IIRC this can be disabled.
 

I'm not sure, probably not, but the point was that said MUA
installation doesn't seem to rewrite bang path addresses.

Two things I learned:

1) netbsd's sendmail is actually postfix

2) postfix has a configuration parameter called

    swap_bangpath

see https://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#swap_bangpath
or postconf(5). I'm doubtful that this setting is really
useful to have postfix work with bang path addresses as
expected.

With our approach of "experimental archaeology" in mind,
maybe it would be more useful, and possibly easier, to
write a simple MUA ourselves:

 - use uucp / rmail to forward to other systems
 - append to local mail spool whatever messages are
   incoming.

what more would it need to do?

cheers,

lkh

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