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Re: bogus(?) ^From_ line

2002-07-05 17:55:08
David, et al --

...and then David W. Tamkin said...
% 
% Somewhere deep in the multipart wrapping, David T-G (no relation) wrote,
% 
...
% |   From davidtg  Fri Jul  5 05:38:17 2002
% | 
% | and some of my lovely procmail rules don't apply any more and I have a
% | lot more stuff in my $DEFAULT (ugh).
% 
% Under qmail, preline is a procmail user's best friend.  It adds a From_

Ahhhhh...  Yes, so I see!  What a simple man page :-)


% line and a Delivered-To: header showing the actual envelope sender and

Delivered-To: hasn't been a problem -- but it's not picked up by ^FROM
or ^TO recipes.


% envelope recipient.  By relying on procmail's -f- instead, you depend
% on what procmail knows, which by that point is only who owns the process.

Yeah :-(

So I wonder if all messages were piped thru preline for me on the old
machine, since I certainly didn't do that.  I'll check with him...


% 
% You may or may not need to specify the entire path to preline, depending
% on whether it is in qmail's default PATH (it should be):
% 
%   | preline /usr/local/bin/procmail -Yt || exit 75

We'll find out!


% 
% David W. T. (no hyphens, though in French the W would be a G)

*grin*


Thanks! & HAND

:-D
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