I have procmail set up on my account at the university, so that it
forwards *all* my mail to my commercial ISP, since it is nearly
impossible to successfully dial in there and also they disconnect you
without warning after an ever changing time limit.
However, all my mail that is forwarded, shows *me* to be the sender of the
mail, instead of the real sender. The real sender is shown as "Fake
Sender". Here is an example:
From: NGOWEN(_at_)hkucc(_dot_)hku(_dot_)hk
Subject: Philippine Sources
To: philippinestudies-l(_at_)postbox(_dot_)anu(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au
Message-Id: <01I755G6SOSI001U34(_at_)hkucc(_dot_)hku(_dot_)hk>
X-Vms-To: IN%"philippinestudies-l(_at_)coombs(_dot_)anu(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au"
X-Vms-Cc: NGOWEN
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT
Sender: David Martin <dmartin(_at_)hawaii(_dot_)edu>
Fake-Sender: owner-philippinestudies-l(_at_)coombs(_dot_)anu(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: philippinestudies-l(_at_)coombs(_dot_)anu(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au
X-UIDL: 19d9912d6fa8a6bcf652a7f418fa1c44
This person in Hong Kong sent a message to a listserv that I belong to:
philippinestudies-l(_at_)postbox(_dot_)anu(_dot_)edu(_dot_)au
Then the listserv sent me a copy to my mailbox at
dmartin(_at_)hawaii(_dot_)edu(_dot_)
Procmail then forwarded it to me, using the .procmailrc file below, at my
commercial ISP address dave(_at_)aloha(_dot_)net(_dot_)
But it shows me as the sender, and the real sender to me, the listserv, is
show as "Fake-Sender".
This doesn't *always* happen with other entities that send me mail. I
sent myself some mail last night to test this, and it came out OK... see
this next header.
From: dave(_at_)aloha(_dot_)net
Reply-to: dave(_at_)aloha(_dot_)net
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 15:00:42 -1000
To: dmartin(_at_)hawaii(_dot_)edu
The message above was sent from me (dave(_at_)aloha(_dot_)net) to
(dmartin(_at_)hawaii(_dot_)edu) and the header still showed that after it was
forwarded by the same .procmailrc file below to my mailbox at aloha.net
after the message arrived at hawaii.edu.
However, below is the header of yet another message which was send to me
by Jim Ayson by way of Albert Godinez (I don't quite understand that
part) but anyway once it arrived in my mailbox at hawaii.edu and the
procmail forwarded it to aloha.net, *I* show up as the "Sender:"
X-Sender: ovrdrive(_at_)202(_dot_)47(_dot_)132(_dot_)1
X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 2.1.2
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
To: dmartin(_at_)hawaii(_dot_)edu,
[.... and about 60 other people on his distribution list] Sender:
David Martin <dmartin(_at_)hawaii(_dot_)edu>
From: jra(_at_)europa(_dot_)com (Jim Ayson by way of Albert Godinez
<ovrdrive(_at_)mozcom(_dot_)com>) Subject: The Blue Star Tatoo Hoax
X-UIDL: 118602506a36d15f776f9c59efc9dda7
Here is the procmailrc file that is on my account at the hawaii.edu.
-----------------Beginning of .procmailrc-------------------------
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/uh/bin # you'd better make sure it exists
MAILDIR=$HOME/mail # completely optional
LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/from # recommended
#
This is supposed to eliminate duplicate messages if at top of file
:0
Wh: msgid.lock |
formail -D 8192 msgid.cache
#
To be able to forward mail between two accounts without creating a loop
# by using the retrieve command
:0
c
*!^X-Loop: dmartin(_at_)hawaii(_dot_)edu
| formail -A "X-Loop: dmartin(_at_)hawaii(_dot_)edu" | \
$SENDMAIL -oi dave(_at_)aloha(_dot_)net
#
This should forward everything that arrives here to my other address
:0
*
! dave(_at_)aloha(_dot_)net
-------------------End of .procmailrc-------------------
I would really appreciate any help in figuring out why this is happening!
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Dave Martin
dave(_at_)aloha(_dot_)net Mail Reader/2 Version 1.05
Registration # 262
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