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Re: auto-reply question: choosing addresses

1996-10-03 01:44:43
On Wednesday 2 October 96, at 12 h 17, the keyboard of "Timothy J. Luoma" 
<luomat(_at_)nerc(_dot_)com> wrote:

The auto-responder sent a reply back to:
 "cris(_at_)nesbittburns(_dot_)ca" (which is in the "From " and "Sender:"  
lines) vs
 "rtsys(_at_)nesbittburns(_dot_)ca" (which is in the "From:" line).

The user in question says that according to RFC822 (4.4.4.   
Automatic Use of From / Sender / Reply-to) this is not the proper  
behavior.

He is right. formail violates RFC822 and this is IMHO a very strong 
problem which was unfortunately never fixed.

I grabbed the auto-responder email address using:
      
      FROM=`formail -rtzxTo:`

This is strange. The '-t' flag instructs formail to use the proper 
precedence when replying. formail should always be used with this flag. 
May be this is a bug with the Unix From line. What version of prrocmail?


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