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[fetchmail]possible bug in fetchmails address parse

2001-09-02 14:56:45
Hi ;)

My e-mail address (From: line etc..) is usually given as:

   <pcg( Marc)@goof(A.).(Lehmann )com>

and it seems some people using fetchmail encounter problems. Investigation
shows that they use something like "mda /usr/sbin/sendmail -f '%F' %T" or
equivalent. fetchmail seems to use the From: line for %F instead of the
envelope from, but in any case it seems to just pass

   pcg_

(no @ etc..), which of course is usually quite a different beast. SMTP
works fine, so something with the %F/%T string mangling is not only
suboptimal (crippling the address), but also buggy (at the least it should
only do pcg__Marc(_at_)goof etc,.. which would still be the wrong address but
would at leats work as advertised ;)

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      ---==---(_)__  __ ____  __       Marc Lehmann      +--
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      -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\       XX11-RIPE         --+
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