On 13 February 1999, Jim Osborn <jimo(_at_)eskimo(_dot_)com> wrote:
Sean B. Straw <PSE-L(_at_)mail(_dot_)professional(_dot_)org> replies:
At 17:44 1999-02-12 -0800, Jim Osborn spoke:
My script would undoubtedly be better if it used the RT line if
present. I looked for something equivalent to "formail -rztx To:"
that would use the From: or Reply-to:, but came up empty.
Ah, but that's just it: by using -r, formail has created the To:
field from the From: field - or the Reply-To:, etc. The use of
To: may be misleading you -- it is the To: address which has been
determined as appropriate for a reply TO the sender, not the To: from
the original message.
That's what I'd hoped it would do, and what it indeed does on some
mail. But when I run this header:
[quoted for presentation here, not in the real test]
From smartlst(_at_)mx1(_dot_)eskimo(_dot_)com Wed Nov 18 17:21:59 1998
Resent-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 17:21:59 -0800
Message-ID:
<01BE1396(_dot_)561213C0(_dot_)pryan(_at_)singnet(_dot_)com(_dot_)sg>
From: Peter Ryan <pryan(_at_)singnet(_dot_)com(_dot_)sg>
To: "Omega-List (E-mail)" <omega-list(_at_)eskimo(_dot_)com>
Subject: test - plse delete
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:25:01 +0800
X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Resent-Message-ID: <"alL3-1.0.ef.rAtKs"@mx1>
Resent-From: omega-list(_at_)eskimo(_dot_)com
X-Mailing-List: <omega-list(_at_)eskimo(_dot_)com> archive/latest/28506
X-Loop: omega-list(_at_)eskimo(_dot_)com
Precedence: list
Resent-Sender: omega-list-request(_at_)eskimo(_dot_)com
Status: RO
through "formail -rztx To:"
I get: omega-list(_at_)eskimo(_dot_)com
which doesn't seem to be the way it's working for you. No?
[...]
formail -I Resent- -rztx To:
Regards,
Liviu Daia
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