[Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea

[Mark Lidstone]

Hi,

I know that's how Demon do it, but surely it's not the only way of doing
it.

As for putting the correct headers in, I've had no end of trouble with
fetchmail ignoring those headers and picking something it found in the
latest "Received:" header (which obviously names the drop-box).

Thanks,

Mark Lidstone
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-----Original Message-----
From: Jakob Hirsch [mailto:jh at plonk.de] 
Sent: 01 April 2005 19:52
To: dovecot at dovecot.org
Subject: Re: [Dovecot] LDA Wishlist idea


Mark Lidstone wrote:

> Demon (an ISP) have extensions to POP3 they call "SDPS" - there's 
> basically an extra command that can be called for an email and it 
> gives the envelope rcpt and from addresses.  I was wondering if there 
> was any chance of future versions of Dovecot allowing something 
> similar?

As demon says, SDPS works by accessing "the same mail spools as are used

by SMTP". Dovecot does not do this. And I don't see a need for that. 
Configure your MTA to put the envelope data into the mail header (e.g. 
Return-path and Envelope-to). I used this several times for 
multidrop-mailboxes (which also seems to be the main use of SDPS).