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formail's '-r' & '-t'

1996-02-09 10:58:22
I'm using procmail v3.10 to process incoming submissions to a moderated
*newsgroup*.

I'm having procmail generate submission receipt replies as follows:
:0 h c
* !^FROM_MAILER
* !^X-Loop: tcl-announce(_at_)mitchell(_dot_)org
* !^Keywords:.*ignore
| (formail -r                                           \
        -I"Subject: Submission Acknowledgement"         \
        -I"From: Tcl Submission <tcl-announce(_at_)mitchell(_dot_)org>"    \
        -I"Errors-To: tcl-announce-request(_at_)mitchell(_dot_)org"        \
        -i"Received:"                                   \
        -A"Precedence: junk"                            \
        -A"X-Loop: tcl-announce(_at_)mitchell(_dot_)org"   ;       \
   echo "==========\nFrom:\t\t$fromWhom\nDate:\t\t$sentDate\nNewgroups:\t$newsgr
oups\nSubject:\t$subject\n=========="   ;               \
   cat /home/tcl-announce/canned/ack )  |               \
  $SENDMAIL -t

Unfortunately, submissions via news are having their replies go to the news
system rather than the original poster (which is bad :-).

Note that the '$fromWhom' is generated via fromWhom=`formail -xFrom:` and
it seems to come up with the correct entity.

I've read the man page about the '-t' option to formail but I didn't use it
because my usual stance is to *not* 'trust' the user. :-)  Should I just
shut up and use the '-t' option or what?

Thanks,
        John

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