David W. Tamkin writes on 6 September 1996 at 21:56:39
Tom Zeltwanger asked,
| Can anyone tell me where I can find a detailed description of the rules
| used by formail when generating a reply header? When I receive messages
| with a From_ header and a Return Path: header, it seems to use these.
| My understanding is that it should use the address in the From: header.
For a few versions in a row, formail -r mistakenly preferred From_ (Return-
Path: and From_ almost always have the same address in them) to all other
Ah, so that's what happened...here's a work-around I wrote quite some
time ago
# formail -rt gives a lot of weight to the postmark, which by
# this time is support(_at_)bristol(_dot_)com (since the message was
# resent), we never want to use that as the address.
formail -I Resent-From: -I "From " -I Return-Path: -zrtx To: < $1
Dan
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