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Add message token for bounces

Open schueffi opened this issue 1 year ago • 5 comments

Similar to pull request 2855 ( https://github.com/postalserver/postal/pull/2855 ), the message token will be inserted into MAIL FROM (i.e. for the return path for bounces). In addition, there is a new configuration option (default disable the new feature), to look for this newly generated message tag when a bounce message comes in. If no tag is found, or the new lookup feature is disabled, then the old (backwards compatible) lookup for the X-Postal-MsgID header will be utilized to search for the corresponding referenced mail.

Using an individual mail address is way more stable than inserting a header into outgoing mails, and relaying on the existence of this header in incoming bounce messages. A lot of "real world" MTAs out there strip additional headers or compose new bounce mails not including the X-Postal-MsgID header. All those incoming bounces can be easily assigned to their corresponding outgoing mails by their individual message tag as part of the bounce mail address.

schueffi avatar Jul 05 '24 21:07 schueffi

This PR is stale because it has been open 45 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 10 days.

github-actions[bot] avatar Aug 20 '24 01:08 github-actions[bot]

Looks good and needed, can we get this merged?

BorjaRafolsMartinez avatar Sep 13 '24 13:09 BorjaRafolsMartinez

This PR is stale because it has been open 45 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 10 days.

github-actions[bot] avatar Feb 11 '25 02:02 github-actions[bot]

This PR is stale because it has been open 45 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 10 days.

github-actions[bot] avatar Oct 02 '25 02:10 github-actions[bot]

This PR is stale because it has been open 45 days with no activity. Remove stale label or comment or this will be closed in 10 days.

github-actions[bot] avatar Nov 17 '25 02:11 github-actions[bot]