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Re: concurrent sendmails when forwarding

1998-08-15 13:16:19
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:30:38 +0300, 
daia(_at_)stoilow(_dot_)imar(_dot_)ro said:

L> Sendmail will rewrite the "From_" header (which you can probably safely
L> ignore), and it will (optionally) add a "From:" if one doesn't exist,
L> but it won't touch an _existing_ "From:".  Well, actually it will encode
L> or decode any 8-bit characters in the "From:" according to the options
L> in sendmail.cf, but it won't change the _meaning_ of the "From:".  In
L> fact, that's exactly what procmail does too in the '!'  recipes.

   There's one exception to this; when you have masquerading turned on.
   I have a (small) mailserver running on my workstation which uses this:

       From: info(_at_)workstation(_dot_)address

   Even with the "-t" flag, sendmail still rewrites this as

       From: info(_at_)masquerade(_dot_)address

   I'm strongly considering dropping sendmail completely and moving to
   qmail.

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