[Dovecot] PATCH: Deliver looses mail and DSN if Return-Path is missing

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed May 9 11:43:05 EEST 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 11:40 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:05 +0200, Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> 
> > - --- src/deliver/mail-send.c (revision 47)
> > +++ src/deliver/mail-send.c (working copy)
> > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
> >              i_info("msgid=%s: Return-Path missing, rejection reason: %s",
> >                     orig_msgid == NULL ? "" : str_sanitize(orig_msgid, 80),
> >                     str_sanitize(reason, 512));
> > - -           return 0;
> > +           return EX_TEMPFAIL;
> >       }
> 
> I actually did the exact opposite change a few months ago :)
> 
> 2007-03-26 00:24  Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>
> 
> 	* src/deliver/mail-send.c: If we couldn't send a bounce because of
> 	  a missing Return-Path header, just return success instead of
> 	  failing with EX_TEMPFAIL.
> 
> I'm not sure why I changed that. I think this is a problem only if the
> SMTP server is misconfigured not to add the Return-Path header? In that
> case I'll change the above i_info() to i_error() also..

Oh, right, return_address = NULL also if the address isn't valid. In
those cases I think it should return 0, because there just isn't
anything to be done. So EX_TEMPFAIL should only be returned if the whole
Return-Path: is missing I think.

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