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Re: Minor detail I don't understand.

1996-12-31 20:33:58
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Michael C. Tiernan wrote:

      2)  What is the RFC822 rules on this question:
          I have a message that has two lines that say "From", one
          says "From addr1(_at_)dom" and another one that says
          "From: addr2(_at_)dom", which is the "From" that I should be
          paying attention to?  Which "From" is the one that procmail
          cares about?

From_ is the SMTP envelope From.
From: is the mail header From.

They don't have to match, but they often do.

Procmail will pay attention to both.  You should be able to see
either/both by turning on "Full" headers in your mail reader, or by
just reading the Unix mail file.  Also, a From_ line deliniates 
messages in the Unix mailbox format.

To have ProcMail pay attention to From: and not From_, use

:0
* ^From:.*junk
junk

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