FYI
After continuing to play with the From: problem I was having, I came across
a syntax problem that was easily resolved, although I don't know why. My
original line was :
|(formail -r -A "Precedence: junk"\
Notice the lack of a space before the continuation \. My other system didn't
care (don't know the sendmail version). After adding a space, the
autoresponder works fine with any Precedence set. Is the space the correct
syntax?
Thanks for all your help. Hope this helps someone else.
Harry
On Sun, 17 May 1998 10:44:00 -0400, Harry Patterson
<harry(_at_)visiontm(_dot_)com> wrote:
While testing and playing with the procmail scripts to find out my
problems
with the From: field, I quite by accident stumbled on the cause of my
problems. If I take out the "Precedence: junk" header addition from my
script, the From: field is displayed the way I planned. My concern now
is
what is the purpose of the junk Precedence and what am I causing by not
having it in place? I thought it was just a prioritization (ie first
class,
junk, etc). I see the precedence listed in many of the examples I've
seen,
but none really explain it's purpose. Obviously sendmail 8.8.8 doesn't
like
it for these autoresponders.
Yes, it's for setting the delivery & relaying priority of messages.
Look for "Message precedences" in your sendmail.cf (or Pjunk if you
have a hand-crafted sendmail.cf). If this affects the From: line, your
Sendmail configuration would appear to be broken.
Hope this helps,
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